Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KILNHURST

KILNHURST, a village in Rawmarsh parish, and a chapelry partly also in Wath-upon-Dearne parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the Doncaster and Sheffield railway, 4¼ miles NE of Rotherham; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Rotherham. The chapelry was constituted in 1860. Pop., 1, 247. Houses, 248. Pop. of the Rawmarsh portion, 374. Houses, 69. The manor and most of the land belong to Earl Fitzwilliam. There are collieries, iron and steel works, glass bottle works, potteries, and brick yards. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £152. * Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church was built in 1858, at a cost of £1, 200; and is in the early English style. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and an extensive co-operative store.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wath upon Dearne CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Kilnhurst

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