Smithies, South Yorkshire

Smithies
Wesleyan Reform Church, Wakefield Road
Smithies Location within South Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SK3508
Metropolitan borough	Barnsley
Metropolitan county	South Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BARNSLEY
Postcode district	S71
Dialling code	01226
Police	South Yorkshire
Fire	South Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Barnsley Central
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°34′10″N 1°28′20″W / 53.5694°N 1.4723°W / 53.5694; -1.4723

Smithies is an area of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It lies about two miles north-east of the town centre.

Smithies was historically a village in the township of Monk Bretton in the parish of Royston in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on the border with the township of Carlton.^[1] Monk Bretton became a separate civil parish in 1866, and in 1921 was absorbed into the County Borough of Barnsley. In 1974 the county borough was abolished, and Smithies became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in the new county of South Yorkshire.