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Wath Upon Dearne, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.

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WATH UPON DEARNE:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"WATH UPON DEARNE, a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-and-TICKHILL West riding of the county of YORK, comprising the chapelries of Nether Hoyland, Swinton, and Wentworth and the townships of Brompton-Bierlow and Wath upon Dearn, and containing 5812 inhabitants, of which number, 1001 are in the township of Wath upon Dearn 5 miles N. from Rotherham. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £15. 10. 2., and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The Rev. Thomas Womb well, in 1663, gave £30 towards the erection of a school-house, which is endowed with £4. 13. 4. per annum, the amount of two rent-charges, bequeathed by Anthony Sawdrie,in 1648, and John Skyers, in 1668, for which seven children are instructed. There are extensive potteries, furnaces, and collieries in the parish. The Roman Iknield-street passed through it."


"BRAMPTON BIERLOW, a chapelry in the parish of WATH upon DEARNE, northern division of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH and TICKHILL, West riding of the county of YORK, 6 miles N.W. from Rotherhani, containing 1263 inhabitants. It stands on the line of the Dove and Dearne canal, in a district containing several iron-foundries, one of which, called Milton Furnace, is on a very extensive scale. George Ellis, in 1711, bequeathed the greater part of his estate for pious and charitable uses, and the trustees acting under the will erected, in 1818, a spacious building, at an expense of £ 865, for the instruction of boys and girls on Dr. Bell's plan -. the master is allowed a salary of £63 per annum, and the mistress one of £15; and the sum of £12 is also paid annually to the master, from a bequest of £300 made by John Higson,in 1814. The remainder of Ellis' charity is applied in relieving the poor, and in apprentice fees."


"NETHER HOYLAND, a chapelry in the parish of WATH-upon-DEARNE, northern division of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-AND-TICKHILL, West riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles S.S.E. from Barnesley, containing, with Upper Hoyland, 1229 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £ 800 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £1300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Wath upon Dearn. A new church is being erected by means of a grant from the parliamentary commissioners. Ten poor boys and ten poor girls are educated for £ 10 per annum, paid by Earl Fitzwilliam."


"SWINTON, a chapelry in the parish of WATH-upon-DEARNE, northern division of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-and-TICKHILL, West riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles N.N.E. from Rotherham, containing 1050 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £SOO private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £ 600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Wath upon Dearn. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, has a fine Norman door. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A considerable manufacture of earthenware is carried on in this chapelry."


"WENTWORTH, a chapelry in the parish of WATH-upon-DEARNE, northern division of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-and-TICKHILL, West riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles N.N.W. from Rotherham, containing 1269 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, hi the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Earl Fitzwilliam. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is principally in the later style of English architecture. A school was erected here, in 1716, by Thomas Wentworth, who endowed it with land and an annuity of £3, towards teaching and clothing fifty poor children: the master occupies the school-house and land rent-free, and receives, besides the above named annuity, one of £ 12 from Earl Fitzwilliam, and another of £2 left by Ann Pickles, in 1669."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]