A genuinely tiny micropub on Redbrook Road at Gawber, converted from a flower shop, with a handful of tables and big windows onto the street. There is no room to spread out, so this suits a small or settled dog rather than a boisterous one, and there is no garden to retreat to. It is the only real ale in this part of town and is a short walk from the Barnsley Canal towpath at Redbrook. CAMRA's Barnsley branch surveyors record it as dog friendly; the bar publishes no policy of its own.
These are the parts only the business can add. We check the dog policy and stamp the date — photos, prices and their own words are theirs to put in, and this listing is waiting for them.
The fire, the snug, the water bowl by the door.
A few dishes and what they cost, so people arrive knowing.
Can the dog actually sleep here, and what does it cost.
Which rooms, which times, whether the whippet gets a biscuit.
Claiming fills every box above, and lets you reply to reviews when they open. £15 a month, no contract, and it never changes the verdict — the stamp stays ours.
Twenty-one hectares of rolling grassland with a fringe of broadleaved woodland on the old Barnsley Main colliery site at Hoyle Mill, with the listed headgear and winding house still standing at the entrance on Oaks Lane. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's stated dog rule here is simply "On a lead". The bottom of the site is flat with a wide footpath and joins the Trans Pennine Trail directly, but the climb to the top is genuinely steep at about one in five, so pick your route to suit the dog. Parking is informal street parking on Oaks Lane opposite the old mine shaft building; there is no car park.
Twenty-five hectares of reedbed, wet woodland, fen and lowland meadow on the old Barnsley to Cudworth railway line, reached from a small free car park on Shaw Lane. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust states plainly that "Dogs are allowed on the public footpaths on leads", so this is a lead walk, not a place to let one range. The footpaths are good but are reached by steps or steep slopes off the old line, which rules out wheels. The car park holds about ten cars and is locked between dusk and dawn, so do not leave it late.
Eighty hectares of woodland, wet woodland, ponds and grassland along the River Dearne between Barnsley town centre and Stairfoot, including the ancient oak and silver birch of Cliffe Wood. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's stated dog rule is "On a lead. Some more remote areas are suitable for running free", which is a rare piece of honesty from a landowner and worth reading twice before you unclip. The paths are good tarmac with a range of DDA compliant routes, so it is one of the few sites in the borough that genuinely works with a wheelchair or a bad knee. Park on Pontefract Road, or off Eaming View at the western end.
Nobody has written one for The Gawber Tap. If you have been with the dog, you would be the first — and the first review is the one everybody reads.
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