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Stairfoot, Barnsley — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Stairfoot is a Barnsley ward at the foot of a valley on the old road to Doncaster, with the Oaks Colliery Disaster Memorial among its landmarks.
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Where to stay in Stairfoot
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Stairfoot is a ward, not a base. Rooms for a stay in this part of South Yorkshire are gathered in Barnsley rather than out along the old road to Doncaster, where the ward's housing sits below the hills. Kendray and Ardsley are the neighbours.
Anyone here for the Oaks Colliery Disaster Memorial can reach it easily from the town centre.
Few places to stay in Stairfoot — most visitors book in Barnsley nearby.
About Stairfoot
What are the main landmarks in Stairfoot?
The memorial carries the weight. The Oaks Colliery Disaster Memorial is the entry that gives Stairfoot its standing in the record, and around it the ward lists Christ Church, St Andrew, a Seventh-day Adventist Church and Park House. Five entries in one ward.
Stairfoot sits on the old road from Barnsley to Doncaster, and its landmarks stand within the ward's valley ground.
What is the history of Stairfoot?
The Oaks Colliery Disaster left the ward its memorial. Stairfoot took its name, so the account runs, from its position at the bottom of a valley between two small hills on the old road from Barnsley to Doncaster, and the villages of Kendray and Ardsley surround it. Christ Church and St Andrew stand among its buildings.
The valley named it; no charter did.
Where is Stairfoot?
Two small hills rise on either side of Stairfoot, which sits at the bottom of the valley between them in South Yorkshire, ringed by the villages of Kendray and Ardsley.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Stairfoot?
Barnsley: rooms in the town at the far end of the Doncaster road.
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Updated September 2026