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The Ancient Parish of SOUTH ANSTON

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"SOUTH ANSTON, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberties of St. Peter and Tickhill; 6 miles from Worksop, (Notts.) 8 miles SE. of Rotherham, 9½ from Tickhill; 12 from Sheffield, 50 from York. Pop. including North Anston, 776, which being united form the township, usually denominated Anston with its Members. The Church, peculiar, is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, £33. Patron, the Duke of Leeds."

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

Audzus Cliffe House Conduit Hill Gildingwells North Anston Wallingwells Woodsetts

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
  • St. James' Church, South Anston view 1.
  • St. James' Church, South Anston view 2.
  • The Methodist Church, South Anston.
  • The Methodist Church, North Anston.
  • The ex-Congregational Chapel, North Anston.
  • St. George's Church, Woodsetts.
    • Internal view looking down the nave
  • The Methodist Church, Woodsetts.

Church Records

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

Community Websites

• Woodsetts Village, South Yorkshire

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 South Anston and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Memorial Inscriptions

• A transcription of the War Memorial Plaques etc. in the Lych gate, St. James' Church, South Anston.
• A transcription of the War Memorial Plaque in St. George's Church, Woodsetts.

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:
  • (SK557832) Cotterhill Woods
  • (SK540825) Lindrick Dale
  • (SK544813) Turnerwood

Societies

• Woodsetts Local History Society
• This parish is covered by the following Family History Society:
  • Rotherham FHS