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The Ancient Parish of MEXBOROUGH

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"MEXBOROUGH, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberties of St. Peter and Tickhill; 5½ miles NE. of Rotherham, 8 from Doncaster, 44 from York. Pop. 865. The Church, peculiar, is a vicarage in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. !£60. --Bacon styles it a curacy, certified value, £20.

The Church of Mexborough is only a perpetual curacy, so far as respects the incumbents; but is described as a vicarage in the roll of livings; subject to the Dean and Chapter of York, and is required to pay procurations and synodals as a Vicar. In the Church are several ancient monuments to the Savilles, a branch of which family, has furnished the title of Earl.

The tenants of the lands of Roger Bacon did fealty and acknowledge, that they held in Mekesburgh (Mexborough) 4 oxgangs of land and paid every two years for keeping the Castle, (Tickhill) in each year, 2s. 4d. and the third year, nothing. May not this have been the famous Fryer Roger Bacon? For there is a tradition that he was a native of this part of Yorkshire, and that his brazen head was set up in a field at Rothwell, near Leeds. --Blount's Fragmenta Antiq."

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"DENABY, in the parish of Mexborough, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 6 miles NE. of Rotherham and 6 from Doncaster. Pop. 141."

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"DON POTTERY, a hamlet in the township and parish of Mexborough; 5½ miles from Rotherham."

Cemeteries

• Here are photographs of Cemeteries etc. in the parish:
• The Cemetery Chapels, Mexborough.

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
  • The Church of St. John the Baptist, Mexborough.
  • Brunswick Methodist Church, Mexborough.
  • Bank Street Methodist Church, Mexborough.
  • The Roman Catholic English Martyrs' Church, Mexborough, built in 1930.
  • The Baptist Church and Community Centre, Mexborough.
  • The Salvation Army, Mexborough.
  • The Spiritualist Church, Mexborough.
  • The ex-Primitive Methodist Church, Mexborough.
  • All Saints' Church, Denaby Main.
  • St. Alban's Roman Catholic Church, Denaby.

Church Records

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

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 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 Mexborough and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Societies

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