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The Ancient Parish of DARFIELD

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"DARFIELD, a parish-town, lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 5 miles E. of Barnsley, 10½ from Doncaster, 42 from York. Pop. 512. The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints (see Churches for photograph), value, £53. 1s. 8d. and a vicarage, ~£14. 11s. 7d. p.r. £90. Patron of the rectory, the Rev. H. Cooke; and of the vicarage, Trinity College, Cambridge."

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

Ardsley Balk Bank Top Billingley Billingley Green Burntwood Lodge Edderthorpe Great Houghton Hemmingfield Hill Top

Kendall Green Lewden Little Houghton Middlewood Hall Nether Wood Hall New Hall Oldham Mill Ouslethwaite Overwood Hall Rockley Abbey

Round Green Smithley Stairfoot Swaithe Hall Tyersall Views Wass Lane Head Wombwell Wombwell Wood Head Worsbrough

Cemeteries

• William Morton has produced an index to the Monumental Inscriptions of St Mary's Church, Worsbrough. These files are on the Barnsley FHS site.

Census

• Under the FreeCen project, a part of the 1891 Census has been transcribed for a part of this parish.

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
  • All Saints' Church, Darfield.
  • The Wesleyan Methodist Church, Darfield.
  • Valley Methodist Church, Darfield. Ex Primitive Methodist, built in 1909.
  • St. Mary's Church, Worsbrough.
  • St Thomas and St James' Church, Worsbrough Dale.
  • Our Lady and St James' R.C. Church, Worsbrough Dale.
  • Christ Church, Ardsley.
  • The Crematorium Chapel, Ardsley.
  • St Mary's Church, Wombwell.
  • Mount Tabor Wesleyan Reform Chapel, Wombwell.
  • The Methodist Chapel, Billingley.
  • St. Michael and All Angels' Church, Great Houghton.
  • The Methodist Church, Great Houghton.
  • The Wesleyan Reform Church, Jump.
• The following Churches have their own web sites:
  • Our Lady and St James' R.C. Church, Worsbrough Dale
  • St Mary's Church, Wombwell

Church Records

• The Barnsley FHS pages have posted an article by Miss Deborah Nock, entitled "The Loy Family and the Darley Main Mine disaster" (of 1849), and she has included the list of names of the victims extracted from the Parish Register of St Mary's Church, Worsborough.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Darfield.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Worsborough.

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

History

• The Barnsley Family History Society have expanded their Worsbrough pages mainly through the efforts of Bill Morton, who has written an introduction to the history of Worsbrough, along with more detailed pieces dealing with St Mary's Church, Worsbrough, and the Worsbrough Free Grammar School.

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 Darfield and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

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:
  • (SE368026) Blacker Hill
  • (SE395015) Hemingfield
  • (SE384014) Jump
  • (SE408035) Low Valley
  • (SE374005) Milton
  • (SE372040) Swaithe
  • (SE347047) Ward Green
  • (SE356038) Worsbrough Bridge
  • (SE345049) Worsbrough Common
  • (SE363036) Worsbrough Dale

Public Records

• The Barnsley Family History Society have secured permission to re-publish Gillian Nixon's article on the Swaithe Main Colliery disaster of 1875. This contains all the names of those killed in this disaster.

Societies

• This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies:
  • Barnsley FHS
  • Doncaster and District FHS

Town Records

• Here is a transcription by Walt Norris of " The Little Houghton Town Book" giving the records of the Accounts and other occurences in the town, from 1711 until the early 1800s. The data is transcribed from the original held by The Barnsley Archives, and contains many names of the people of the town.