Barnsley (disambiguation)

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Barnsley is a town in South Yorkshire, England

Places

in England

Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, a local government district in South Yorkshire
Barnsley (UK Parliament constituency), South Yorkshire
Barnsley, Gloucestershire, a village
Barnsley, Shropshire, a village
Barnsley Manor, a manor house on the Isle of Wight

The Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley is a metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England; its main town is Barnsley.

Barnsley was a Parliamentary constituency covering the town of Barnsley in England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

Barnsley is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, four miles northeast of Cirencester. Barnsley village is 80 miles (129 km) west of London.

Elsewhere

Barnsley is a township in New South Wales, Australia, 21 kilometres (13 mi) west of Newcastle's central business district. It is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area.

Barnsley is a locality in south central Manitoba, Canada. It is located approximately 10 kilometers north of Carman, Manitoba in the Rural Municipality of Dufferin.

Barnsley is an unincorporated community in Hopkins County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

People

Barnsley (surname)

Science

Mathematics

Barnsley fern, a fractal named after the British mathematician Michael Barnsley

The Barnsley fern is a fractal named after the British mathematician Michael Barnsley who first described it in his book Fractals Everywhere. He made it to resemble the black spleenwort, Asplenium adiantum-nigrum.

Michael Fielding Barnsley, born in 1946, is a British mathematician, researcher and an entrepreneur who has worked on fractal compression; he holds several patents on the technology. He received his Ph.D in Theoretical Chemistry from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1972 and BA in Mathematics from Oxford in 1968. In 1987 he founded Iterated Systems Incorporated, and in 1988 he published a book entitled Fractals Everywhere and in 2006 SuperFractals.

Other

in South Yorkshire, England

Barnsley Building Society
Barnsley Canal
Barnsley F.C., a professional football club
Barnsley (speedway), a speedway team

Barnsley Building Society was established on 12 January 1853, by a group of prominent townsfolk who following the example of many other towns and cities at the time decided to form their own building society.

The Barnsley Canal is a canal that ran from Barnby Basin, through Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England to a junction with the Aire and Calder Navigation near Wakefield. It was built in the 1790s, to provide a transport link from coal reserves at Barnsley to a wider market. Both the Aire and Calder Navigation and the River Don Navigation took a keen interest in the project, the former buying many of the initial shares, and the latter constructing the Dearne and Dove Canal to link the canal to their waterway. Water supply issues meant that the AIre and Calder proposed pumping all of the water for the canal from the River Calder, using steam pumps, but a reservoir was built at Cold Hiendley instead, increasing the construction costs, but reducing the running costs. The canal as built was 14.5 miles (23.3 km) long and included 15 locks.

Barnsley Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The team play in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. Nicknamed "the Tykes", they were founded in 1887 by Reverend Tiverton Preedy under the name Barnsley St. Peter's. The club colours are red and white, and their home ground since 1888 has been Oakwell.

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