Oxspring

{{short description|Village and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England}}

{{for|people called Oxspring|Oxspring (surname)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|53.514|-1.594|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Oxspring

| population = 1,225

| population_ref = (2011)

| metropolitan_borough = Barnsley

| civil_parish = Oxspring

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| metropolitan_county = South Yorkshire

| constituency_westminster = Barnsley West and Penistone

| post_town = SHEFFIELD

| postcode_district = S36

| postcode_area = S

| dial_code = 01226

| os_grid_reference = SE270020

| website = http://www.oxspring-parish.com

| static_image_name = Oxspring Post Office 2016.jpg

| static_image_caption = Oxspring Post Office

}}

Oxspring is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,048,{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790253|title=Census 2001|accessdate=17 January 2009|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222183129/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790253|archivedate=22 December 2016}} increasing to 1,225 at the 2011 Census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127374&c=Oxspring&d=16&e=62&g=6353736&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1457178455905&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population|accessdate=5 March 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}} The civil parish includes the hamlets of Clays-Green, Roughbirchworth and Storrs.[http://www.oxspringplan.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Reg-14-ONP-Draft-NP-March-2016-black-text.pdf Oxspring Neighbourhood Plan] It is situated on the River Don with the main village being between the Sheffield Road (B6462) and the route of the Trans Pennine Trail. On the other (NE) side of the river is the A629, part of which is called Oxspring Lane, indicating the position of the original hamlet (now High Oxspring Farm).

The parish has a post office, a combined C of E church and community hall, St Aidan's, a primary school and three public houses, the Waggon and Horses on the B6462, The Smithy Arms on Bower Hill and the Travellers Inn on the A629. There is a small amount of industry at the north west end.