Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WORSBROUGH

WORSBROUGH, a township, two chapelries, and a sub-district, in Barnsley district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the South Yorkshire railway and on a branch of the Dearne and Dove canal, 2½ miles S by E of Barnsley; is in Darfield parish; contains W., W.-Dale, W.-Common, and Blacker villages and seven hamlets; and has a r. station at Birdwell, and post-offices of Worsbrough-Dale‡ and Worsbrough-Bridge under Barnsley. Acres, 3,594. Real property, £31,760; of which £19,480 are in mines, and £25 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 4,277; in 1861, 5,381. Houses, 1,076. The property is subdivided. W. manor belongs to F. W. Wentworth, Esq.; and Darley manor, to J. Jeffcock, Esq. W. Hall, Darley Hall, Ouselthwaite, and Round Green are chief residences. There are extensive collieries, iron-works, chemical works, glass-works, gunpowder-mills, paper-mills, and corn mills. The chapelries are St. Mary and St. Thomas; and the livings are vicarages in the diocese of York. Value of St. Mary, £120;* of St. Thomas, £113. St. Mary's church was mostly rebuilt in 1839; and is in the later English style, with tower and spire. St. Thomas' church was built in 1859, at a cost of £3,500; and is in the early English style, with tower and spire. There are four dissenting chapels, two endowed schools with £31 a year, and charities £46.—The sub-district includes Stainbrough township, and comprises 5,286 acres. Pop., 5,851. Houses, 1,174.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a township, two chapelries, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Barnsley RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Worsbrough

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