Wentworth Village near Barnsley

In Wentworth, there is a sign at the back of the car park on Main Street has the legend that Wentworth was the Rural Community Council’s Best Kept Village in South Yorkshire in 1997.

The intervening twelve years have not appeared to diminish that claim.

Wentworth is a beautifully kept village which has retained all its charm despite becoming ever more popular with visitors. Residents’ cottages live side by side with attractions such as the Wentworth Tearooms, the 13th Century Old Church and the heterogeneous Garden Centre.

Wentworth can trace its existence and origins, although a little murkily, back to at least 1066 when lands around there were given to allies and friends of Duke William, the Conqueror. The name Wentworth comes from a family who lived and owned lands in the area in the late 11th Century. It’s not known how they came to acquire it, but around 1300 one of their number married a Woodhouse, a family which lived outside the village, hence the name of the great house, variously known as ‘England’s biggest end-terrace house,’ or ‘England’s biggest semi,’ Wentworth Woodhouse.

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Wentworth, the picturesque estate village in Barnsley has been a popular day trip destination for generations of South Yorkshire folk.

Wentworth, according to local historian and resident Martyn Johnson interest in the village has mushroomed since the publication of Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey in 2007.

The book which chronicles the rise and fall of the wealthy, aristocratic Fitzwilliam family; owners of Wentworth Woodhouse, has changed Wentworth from a local into an international tourist destination.

Martyn, who assisted and advised on the research for Black Diamonds, felt that visitors to Wentworth village often wanted a souvenir to remind them of what they had seen. Having inherited some old postcards from his family and avidly added to their collection over many years Martyn and his wife Christine thought that compiling the postcard images in a book would make a suitable memento. Wentworth – Postcard Views & Memories was published last December. The book contains 84 reproductions of black and white postcards dating back to 1902 which illustrate many of the places and faces that readers of Black Diamonds will be familiar with.

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