Havercroft is a small village situated on the B6428 in West Yorkshire, England, approximately 6½ miles north-east of Barnsley.

It forms part of the civil parish of Havercroft with Cold Hiendley, which has a population of 2,103,[2] increasing to 2,256 at the 2011 Census.

For hundreds of years, Havercroft was an agricultural community and the few people who lived here worked in the fields; it does not appear in Domesday Book but it can be traced back on old maps and charters of 1155, when Henry the Second, father of Richard the Lionheart, was King of England.

Since then the village has become popular with commuters travelling to nearby towns such as Barnsley, Pontefract and Wakefield.

In terms of the built environment Havercroft is co-terminous with its Ryhill neighbour with the boundary of the two civil parishes following along streetside and garden fence rather than across open fields for much of its length.