In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Brampton Bierlow like this:
BRAMPTON-BIERLOW, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Wath-upon-Dearne parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the South Yorkshire railway and to the Dove and Dearne canal, 2 ½ miles WNW of Wath r. station, and 5 N of Rotherham. The township includes also the hamlets of Coley-Lane, Cartwood, Hoober, New-Mill, and West Melton, and part of the hamlet of Elsecar, which has a post office under Rotherham. ...
Acres, 3,074. Real property, £9,221; of which £2,700 are in mines. Pop., 1,938. Houses, 374. The property is divided among a few. There are iron foundries.—The chapelry was constituted in 1856, and is less extensive than the township. Pop., 1,733. Houses, 341. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Wath. The church is very good. There are an Independent chapel, a well-endowed national school. and charities £56.
Brampton Bierlow through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Brampton Bierlow, in Rotherham and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11661
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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