BMBC PARK SERVICES - ELSECAR PARK

The park is on the B6097 Wentworth Road, eight miles from Barnsley town centre.

Park facilities/features

• Children's play area up to age 14 
• Multi use games area
• Café
• Toilets with baby changing area and disabled facilities
• Nine hole pitch and putt course (pay in the cafe)
• Crazy golf area (pay in the café)
• Bandstand (with electricity supply) and ornamental terraced gardens
• Sand pit, picnic area and story-telling circle
• Bicycle parking area
• The Trans Pennine Trail (multi-user path) runs through the reserve
• Reservoir and local nature reserve
• Bird hide and pond dipping pool
• Open area for informal games and events
• Friends group Reservoir and Local Nature Reserve
• Green Flag Award winning park

The reservoir’s fishing rights are leased to Elsecar Colliery Angling Club and it contains a variety of course fish. The club has the exclusive right to fish with rod and line in certain parts of the reservoir and has 29 pegged fishing bays and 15 non- pegged fishing bays for use by club members and by other clubs at organised events. The reservoir and its surrounding land have been declared as one of the borough’s natural heritage sites in view of its regional importance for nature conservation.

 If you’re travelling by car, you can use the council owned car park on Wentworth Road (next to Elsecar Heritage Centre Car Park).

You can also use the Cricket Club car park on Armroyd Lane at the discretion of the Cricket Club. Buses run past the park every twenty minutes. You can catch numbers 64 64a, 66,72 and 227. The 227 Hoyland to Rotherham bus passes through the village every hour and stops outside the Market Public House. Buses 64,64a and 66 stop outside Milton Hall on Wath Road, while the 72 stops outside Elsecar Main cricket ground on Fitzwilliam Street.

The park is only 10 minutes from the train station if you want to travel by train.