Wortley is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

Wortley grew up as a settlement where the Sheffield to Halifax road crossed the Cheshire to Rotherham route.

In 1307, the village finally received a Royal Charter to hold a weekly Thursday market and an annual three-day fair at Whitsun.

[4] It was really he (and not Dick Turpin) who made the infamous ride on horseback from London to York in order to establish an alibi for a robbery.

It hosts a variety of events including an annual charity beer festival held on or around 1 August every year to coincide with Yorkshire day.