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The Ancient Parish of ARKSEY

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"ARKSEY, a parish-town, in the township of Bentley with Arksey, lower division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 3½ miles N. from Doncaster, 9 from Thorne, 35 from York. Pop. included in Bentley. The Church is a vicarage dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, £12. 17s. 6d. p.r. £109. Patron, Sir George Cooke, Bart.

Here is a Free Grammar School endowed by the Will of Bryan Cooke, Esq. dated January 3rd, 1660, and built by the will Of Sir George Cooke, Bart., in 1683; and an Hospital for twelve of the poorest and oldest people in the parish."

Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.

Almholme Bentley Bodles Bridge Foot Shaftholme Stockbridge

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
  • All Saints' Church, Arksey.
  • St. Peter's Church, Bentley.
  • The Methodist Church, Bentley.
  • The Baptist Church, Bentley.
  • Mount Hermon Evangelical Church, Bentley.
  • Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church, Bentley.
  • The Church of St Philip and St James, New Village, Bentley (view 1).
  • The Church of St Philip and St James, New Village, Bentley (view 2).
  • The Methodist Church, Scawthorpe.
  • Cornerstone Wesleyan Reform Church, Bentley.
  • The Pentecostal Church, Bentley.
  • The Pentecostal Church, Bentley.

Church Records

• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Arksey.

Directories

• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Baines's Directory and Gazetteer Directory of 1822.

Gazetteers

• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1829 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1834 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from National Gazetteer 1868 Yorkshire extracts.

Maps

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• For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
• For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
• Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
• View maps of Arksey and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Memorial Inscriptions

• A transcription of the 1914-18 and 1939-45 War Memorial in St. Philip and St. James' Churchyard, New Village.

Names (Geographical)

• The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
  • (SE565048) Bentley Rise
  • (SE566065) New Village
  • (SE565068) Rostholme
  • (SE555055) Scawthorpe
  • (SE545050) Sunnyfields

Schools

• Arksey with Bentley - the School, from the "Endowed Charities W.R. Yorkshire and Sheffield", transcribed by Alan Longbottom.

Societies

• This parish is covered by the following Society:
  • Doncaster and District FHS