Rothwell, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1750.

ROTHWELL:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.

"ROTHWELL, a parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire, near the road from Wakefield to Leeds, is the gaol for the liberty of Pontefract, had a colliery lately opened near it, and is the seat of Mr. Proctor."

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"MIDDLETON, in the parish of Rothwell, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, near Rothwell, is a Lp. abounding with wood and coal, which bel. formerly to the Cropings; from whom it went by marriage to Sir John Merworth, and was sold to Gilbert de Legh."

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"THORP ON THE HILL, in the parish of Rothwell, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on the S. side of Leeds. In the neighbourhood there is supposed to have been a Roman camp; and at a place here called Lingwell-Yate, certain clay moulds were found in 1697, which, by the impressions, were supposed to have been invented for counterfeiting Roman coins."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer, 1750]