In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wortley like this:
WORTLEY, a village, a township-chapelry, a sub-district, and a district, in W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on an eminence, adjacent to the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 6 miles SSW of Barnsley; and has a post-office‡ under Sheffield, and a r. station. The chapelry includes five hamlets, is in Tankersley parish, and comprises 5,984 acres. ...
Real property, £6,650; of which £1,034 are in mines, and £16 in quarries. Pop., 1,121. Houses, 217. The manor, with W. Hall, belongs to Lord Wharncliffe. The Hall is a handsome edifice, in the Italian style; and stands in an extensive park, noticed in our article Wharncliffe. There are collieries, iron and steel-works, and brick and tile-works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £120. Patron, Lord Wharncliffe. The church was originally Norman and early English, but has been very greatly altered. There is a handsome national school of 1861.—The sub-district is conterminate with Tankersley parish.—The district consists of Wortley and Penistone poor-law unions; and is divided. into Wortley, Ecclesfield, Bradfield, Penistone, High Hoyland , and Cawthorne sub-districts. Acres, 87,790. Poor rates in 1863, £14,375. Pop. in 1851, 32,012; in 1861, 38,511. house s, 7,572. Marriages in 1866, 266; births, 1,605, -of which 130 were illegitimate; deaths, 876,-of which 405 were at ages under 5 years, and 12 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 2,312; births, 13,978; deaths, 7,379. The places of worship, in 1851, were 15 of the Church of England , with 8,290 sittings; 9 of Independents, with 2,897 s.; 2 of Baptists, with 250 s.; 1 of Quakers, with 210 s.; 1 of Unitarians, with 350 s.; 21 of Wesleyans, with 4,084 s.; 8 of New Connexion Methodists, with 986 s.; 6 of Primitive Methodists, with 788 s.; 4 of Wesleyan Reformeis, with 180 s.; and 3 undefined, with 400 s. The schools were 35 public day-schools, with 2,877 scholars; 37 private day-schools, with 942 s.; 66 Sunday schools, with 5,325 s.; and 2 evening schools for adults, with 76 s. Work house s are in Ecclesfield and Bradfield.
Wortley through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wortley, in Barnsley and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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