Goldthorpe is a small town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England.

It was anciently a small medieval farming village, Goldthorpe is recorded in the Domesday Book a part of the Manor of Bolton upon Dearne which was once owned by Roger de Busli.

Early prehistoric pottery, a flint flake, Bronze Age cremation sites and Romano-British ditches and field systems have been found in the Goldthorpe area suggesting ancient occupation of the area over a long period of time.

[2] In the early 18th century, Barnsley Attorney William Henry Marsden Esquire of Burntwood Hall bought the Manor of Bolton on Dearne with Goldthorpe for £10,000 including over 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) of land.

The village is connected to areas of wider employment such as Leeds, Wakefield and Barnsley by public transport.

The shops to the eastern end of the centre were replaced with Dearne Goldthorpe Primary School.

The remaining parts of the centre along the western section of Doncaster Road have been refurbished with new flagged pedestrian pavements.

There were previously two other pubs; the Horse and Groom which has since been demolished and The Goldthorpe which lies in a state of significant dereliction at the eastern end of Doncaster Road.