Betfred Opening Times Doncaster
Opening times for all four Betfred betting shops in Doncaster: High Street and Cleveland Street in the town centre, a hundred yards apart, plus Intake and Woodlands. Every shop shows whether it is open right now and how long you have before it closes today.
Checking times…
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Time now in Doncaster
--:--:-- —Central Doncaster Betfred shops open now
— —Last Betfred in central Doncaster closes in
— —Until you share your location, “nearest” means nearest to Doncaster Square: Betfred, 31–33 Cleveland Street (DN1 3DY), a minute from the Market Place and the Frenchgate centre.
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Betfred Doncaster opening times at a glance
- Betfred shops in Doncaster
- 4 branches
- In the town centre
- 2 of the 4
- Earliest weekday opening
- 08:00 — both town-centre shops
- Latest closing
- 22:00 — both town-centre shops, every day
- Christmas Day
- Every shop closed — required by law
Doncaster is a four-shop town split cleanly in two. The two town-centre branches, a hundred yards apart on High Street and Cleveland Street, both run 08:00 to 22:00 six days a week and hold 22:00 on a Sunday. The two outer shops at Intake and Woodlands are an hour or more shorter at both ends and drop to 21:00 and 20:00 on a Sunday. 54 High Street opens at 08:30 on a Sunday, earlier than anything else in the town. Full published weekly times are available for every branch, so every countdown on this page is the shop’s own.
The 2 Betfred shops in Doncaster town centre
Both town-centre branches, on High Street and Cleveland Street, about a hundred yards apart. Each row shows today’s times, whether the shop is open now and how long until it closes, with buttons for the map pin, a route from where you are and Street View of the shopfront.
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Betfred, Cleveland Street31–33 Cleveland Street, Doncaster DN1 3DY
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Betfred, High Street (town centre)54 High Street, Doncaster DN1 1BE
Both carry their own published weekly times, and they are almost identical: 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday, with 22:00 held on a Sunday too. The only difference is the Sunday morning, when High Street opens at 08:30 and Cleveland Street at 09:00. High Street sits on the pedestrianised run towards the Frenchgate centre and the station; Cleveland Street is a minute south towards St Sepulchre Gate. Distances are straight-line estimates from the Market Place. Street View opens at the shop’s position, so you may need to turn the view to face the shopfront.
Doncaster Betfred opening times compared
The full weekly pattern for all four branches in one table, town-centre shops first. Today’s column is highlighted.
The two town-centre shops keep identical hours Monday to Saturday and differ only by half an hour on the Sunday morning. Intake trims half an hour off its Saturday evening, and Woodlands is the only branch in the town that opens earlier on a Saturday than midweek, at 08:00. The Sunday spread runs from 20:00 at Woodlands to 22:00 in the centre, a two-hour gap between the middle of town and the northern suburbs.
| Shop | Mon – Fri | Saturday | Sunday | Find the shop |
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| Cleveland Street31–33 Cleveland Street, DN1 3DY | 08:00–22:00 | 08:00–22:00 | 09:00–22:00 | |
| High Street (town centre)54 High Street, DN1 1BE | 08:00–22:00 | 08:00–22:00 | 08:30–22:00 | |
| Intake (Sandringham Road)49 Sandringham Road, DN2 5HY | 08:30–21:30 | 08:30–21:00 | 09:30–21:00 | |
| Woodlands (Great North Road)222 Great North Road, DN6 7HR | 08:30–21:00 | 08:00–21:00 | 09:30–20:00 |
Earliest and latest Betfred shops in Doncaster
Full weekly times are published for all four branches, so this section covers every shop on the page.
Open earliest
Both town-centre shops open at 08:00 Monday to Saturday. Intake opens at 08:30 every day of the week, and Woodlands at 08:30 midweek but 08:00 on a Saturday — the only branch in the town that opens earlier at the weekend. On a Sunday, 54 High Street is the earliest at 08:30, then Cleveland Street at 09:00 and the two outer shops at 09:30. Nothing in Doncaster opens before 08:00 on any day.
Open latest
The two town-centre branches trade until 22:00 and hold that time all seven days. Intake closes at 21:30 on weekdays and Woodlands at 21:00, dropping to 21:00 and 20:00 respectively on a Sunday. So after 21:30 on any evening the town centre is the only option, and on a Sunday evening the gap between the centre and Woodlands is a full two hours.
The one to remember: 54 High Street runs 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 08:30 to 22:00 on a Sunday — fourteen hours a day six days a week and thirteen and a half on a Sunday. It is the earliest-opening and latest-closing Betfred in the town on every day of the week.
Betfred Doncaster Sunday opening times
Sunday splits the town in two: the centre trades until 22:00, the outer shops close at 21:00 and 20:00.
| Shop | Opens | Closes | Find the shop |
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| Cleveland Street31–33 Cleveland Street, DN1 3DY | 09:00 | 22:00 | |
| High Street (town centre)54 High Street, DN1 1BE | 08:30 | 22:00 | |
| Intake (Sandringham Road)49 Sandringham Road, DN2 5HY | 09:30 | 21:00 | |
| Woodlands (Great North Road)222 Great North Road, DN6 7HR | 09:30 | 20:00 |
High Street and Cleveland Street both run to 22:00 on a Sunday, and High Street opens at 08:30, giving it the longest Sunday in the town at thirteen and a half hours. Intake closes at 21:00 and Woodlands at 20:00. If you are out at Woodlands or Adwick on a Sunday evening, the town centre is the only Betfred open after eight.
Betfred Doncaster bank holiday opening times
Betting shops in England can trade on every bank holiday bar one. Premises licences issued under the Gambling Act 2005 carry a condition that gambling facilities cannot be provided on Christmas Day, so all four Doncaster branches close on 25 December by law rather than by choice.
On the other bank holidays, Doncaster branches usually run either their normal times for that day of the week or a slightly shorter day. Betfred has in past years announced a chain-wide 20:00 close on bank holiday Mondays, which would cut two hours off the two town-centre branches, so check the window card the week before. Dates in the tables below update automatically.
Easter opening times
Betting shops have been allowed to open on Good Friday since the Gambling Act 2005 came into force, and there is no Easter Sunday restriction in Great Britain. Across the Easter weekend, expect each Doncaster branch to follow its usual pattern for that day. Doncaster racecourse usually holds a meeting over the Easter period, and the Grand National at Aintree in early April is the busiest betting day of the year in South Yorkshire.
| Day | Falls on | Next date | What to expect |
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| Good Friday | Friday before Easter Sunday | — | Normal weekday times |
| Easter Saturday | Saturday before Easter Sunday | — | Normal Saturday times |
| Easter Sunday | First Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March | — | Normal Sunday times |
| Easter Monday | Day after Easter Sunday | — | Weekday opening, possible 20:00 close |
May and August bank holidays
The early May, spring and summer bank holidays all fall on a Monday. Check the window card or the Betfred shop finder the week before, particularly at the two town-centre branches where an early close makes the biggest difference. The Doncaster St Leger Festival falls in September rather than on a bank holiday, but it is the busiest week of the year in the town’s shops.
| Bank holiday | Falls on | Next date | What to expect |
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| Early May bank holiday | First Monday in May | — | Weekday opening, possible 20:00 close |
| Spring bank holiday | Last Monday in May | — | Weekday opening, possible 20:00 close |
| Summer bank holiday | Last Monday in August | — | Weekday opening, possible 20:00 close |
Christmas and New Year opening times
The festive fortnight is the only stretch of the year when Doncaster times move far from the weekly pattern. Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve normally finish early, Boxing Day — the biggest racing day of the winter — runs close to normal, and New Year’s Day starts later.
| Day | Date | Next date | Usual pattern in Doncaster |
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| Christmas Eve | 24 December | — | Normal opening, early close around 18:00 |
| Christmas Day | 25 December | — | Closed all day, every shop |
| Boxing Day | 26 December | — | Normal opening, close around 20:00 |
| Substitute bank holiday | When 25 or 26 December falls on a weekend | — | Normal times for that day |
| New Year’s Eve | 31 December | — | Normal opening, early close around 18:00 |
| New Year’s Day | 1 January | — | Later start around 10:00, close around 20:00 |
Each Doncaster branch sets its own festive times and usually posts them in the window from mid-December. Doncaster racecourse holds no meeting between Christmas and New Year, so the festive pattern here is driven by the town centre rather than the track. The live countdowns on this page follow the standard weekly times and the Christmas Day closure only, so check the window card before travelling on 24, 26 or 31 December or 1 January.
How the live opening times work
Everything live on this page reads the clock in Doncaster (UK time), not the clock on your device, and compares it against each shop’s published times. That keeps the status right even if you are checking from abroad.
The panel at the top
The top panel covers the two town-centre branches on High Street and Cleveland Street. It tells you how many are open right now, which is next to close, and how long until the last one shuts for the night. Since these are the latest-closing shops in the town, the panel is the optimistic guide — Intake and Woodlands will already have shut when it still shows one open.
The shop rows
Open now means the shop is inside its published times and the countdown shows how long is left. Closed shows when it opens next. Counters stop taking cash bets a few minutes before closing so staff can settle slips, so if you are collecting winnings, aim to arrive ten minutes before the time shown.
Map, directions and Street View
Each row has three buttons. Map drops a pin on the shop, Directions plans a route from wherever you are, and Street View shows the street around the shop so you can spot the frontage before you set off. Tap “Use my current location” and the lists re-order themselves so the closest shop is always at the top, and the directions button points to the nearest of all four Doncaster branches.
Betfred across the rest of Doncaster
Two more branches sit outside the centre: Sandringham Road at Intake, a mile east, and Great North Road at Woodlands, nearly four miles north-west towards Adwick. Both publish full weekly times, so their live status is as exact as the town-centre shops’.
Betfred in Intake and Woodlands 2 shops
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Betfred, Intake (Sandringham Road)49 Sandringham Road, Intake, Doncaster DN2 5HY
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Betfred, Woodlands (Great North Road)222 Great North Road, Woodlands, Doncaster DN6 7HR
Neither outer branch reaches 22:00 at any point in the week, so in Doncaster the late trade is firmly a town-centre business. Intake runs 08:30 to 21:30 on weekdays and 09:30 to 21:00 on a Sunday, and is the closest of the four to the racecourse at around three quarters of a mile. Woodlands is the shortest of the four overall, 08:30 to 21:00 midweek and 09:30 to 20:00 on a Sunday, though it is the only branch that opens at 08:00 on a Saturday. A reviewer mentions a second bookmaker across the road from it, so it is not the only option on that stretch of the Great North Road.
Betfred near Doncaster
Doncaster sits at the eastern edge of South Yorkshire, and the towns around it each have their own Betfred branches listed under their own names.
South Elmsall is the closest outside the borough, about six miles north on Barnsley Road, and Harworth and Bircotes lie eight miles south in Nottinghamshire, both carrying Doncaster addresses in some listings. Beyond them there are branches at Goldthorpe, Thurnscoe and Mexborough in the Dearne Valley, and Rotherham, Barnsley and Sheffield to the west. Doncaster’s own Town Moor racecourse, home of the St Leger, is about a mile east of the Market Place.
All four branches on this page are licensed by City of Doncaster Council. The Woodlands shop carries a Doncaster address but is listed under Woodlands in some directories, and the Harworth and Bircotes branch sits in Nottinghamshire despite its Doncaster postal address, so it falls under Bassetlaw for licensing. If you are heading for Woodlands, South Elmsall or Harworth rather than Doncaster itself, use the location button above: the directions button always routes to the nearest of the four Doncaster branches.
Other bookmakers in Doncaster
Doncaster town centre has an unusually tight cluster of betting shops, and Betfred is one of five brands trading within a couple of hundred yards.
Ladbrokes has three in the centre alone: 49 Market Place and 39–47 Printing Office Street, the latter about fifty yards from the Cleveland Street Betfred, plus Everingham Road towards Intake and a branch on Queen Mary’s Road at Edlington. Coral trades at 35 St Sepulchre Gate, a minute from the High Street Betfred, and at 154–156 Carr House Road. William Hill has shops at 8 Market Place, 39/40 Broxholme Lane, 245 Beckett Road, Maysam Court at Scawthorpe and High Street in Bentley, and Paddy Power is at 41 Market Place.
We are still confirming full weekly times branch by branch for the non-Betfred shops in Doncaster, so they are not listed with live status on this page yet. The Market Place and St Sepulchre Gate area is the spot to know: within about two hundred yards you have both Betfred branches, two Ladbrokes, a Coral, a William Hill and a Paddy Power. Given the 08:00 opening and 22:00 close, the Betfred pair are among the longest-trading of them, but that is worth checking rather than assuming. Every bookmaker in the borough is closed on Christmas Day by law.
About Betfred in Doncaster
| Trading name | Betfred |
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| Licensee | Done Brothers (Cash Betting) Limited |
| Head office | Birchwood, Warrington |
| Licensing authority | City of Doncaster Council |
| Branches in Doncaster | 4 betting shops |
| In the town centre | 2 of the 4 |
Betfred began in Salford in 1967, when brothers Fred and Peter Done opened their first betting shop, and it runs its estate from Birchwood in Warrington, about 70 miles west. Doncaster is a four-shop town, and it is a town-centre estate: two branches a hundred yards apart on High Street and Cleveland Street, then Intake a mile east and Woodlands nearly four miles north-west. Nothing covers Bentley, Armthorpe, Balby or Edlington, where William Hill and Ladbrokes trade instead. For a borough of 310,000 and the home of the St Leger, four shops is a lighter presence than you might expect.
For travellers, 54 High Street is the one to know: on the pedestrianised run a few minutes from the Frenchgate centre and Doncaster railway station on the East Coast Main Line, open until 22:00 every day and from 08:30 even on a Sunday. Cleveland Street is a minute further south. For the St Leger at Town Moor, about a mile east, Intake on Sandringham Road is the closest of the four, though the course has its own bookmakers. For Doncaster Rovers and the Eco-Power Stadium at Lakeside, the town-centre pair are around a mile away, with no Betfred closer.
Frequently asked questions
- How many Betfred shops are there in Doncaster?
- Four, all licensed by the City of Doncaster Council: 54 High Street and 31–33 Cleveland Street in the town centre, a hundred yards apart, plus Sandringham Road at Intake and Great North Road at Woodlands. All four publish full weekly times.
- What time does Betfred open in Doncaster?
- Both town-centre shops open at 08:00 Monday to Saturday. Intake opens at 08:30 all week, and Woodlands at 08:30 on weekdays but 08:00 on a Saturday. On a Sunday, High Street opens at 08:30, Cleveland Street at 09:00 and the two outer branches at 09:30.
- What time does Betfred close in Doncaster?
- Both town-centre branches close at 22:00, every day of the week including Sunday. Intake closes at 21:30 on weekdays and 21:00 at the weekend, and Woodlands at 21:00 on weekdays and 20:00 on a Sunday.
- Which Betfred in Doncaster is open latest on a Sunday?
- Both town-centre shops, until 22:00. 54 High Street is the pick because it also opens earliest at 08:30, giving it a thirteen-and-a-half-hour Sunday. Intake closes at 21:00 and Woodlands at 20:00.
- Is Betfred open on Christmas Day?
- No. Every betting shop in Great Britain is closed on Christmas Day. It is a condition attached to premises licences under the Gambling Act 2005, not a company decision.
- Are Betfred shops in Doncaster open during the St Leger Festival?
- Yes, and the St Leger week in September is the busiest betting week of the year in the town. The four shops keep their published hours, so the queues rather than the times are the thing to plan around. The racecourse has its own on-course bookmakers and Tote facilities, so there is no need to place a shop bet before you travel.
- Which Betfred is nearest to Doncaster racecourse and the Eco-Power Stadium?
- Neither is on the doorstep. Town Moor racecourse is about a mile east of the Market Place, with 54 High Street and Cleveland Street both roughly that distance, and Intake on Sandringham Road is the nearest of the four to the course at around three quarters of a mile. For Doncaster Rovers at the Eco-Power Stadium, the town-centre pair are about a mile north-west of the ground.
- How do I find the nearest Betfred to me in Doncaster?
- Tap “Use my current location”. Every list on this page then re-orders nearest-first, and the directions button at the top routes you to the closest of the four Doncaster Betfred shops.