Barnburgh

The Ancient Parish of BARNBURGH

[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]

"BARNBURGH, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; (Barnburgh Hall, the residence of Mrs. Griffith,) 6 miles W. of Doncaster, 8 from Rotherham, 9 from Barnsley, 36 from York. Pop. 466. The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, £23. patrons, Prebendaries of Southwell, Collegiate Church, (Notts.)

Mr. Bingley, in his Animal Biography, relates the following singular anecdote. "At Barnborough there is a tradition extant, of a serious conflict that once took place between a man and a wild cat. The inhabitants say, that the fight commenced in an adjacent wood, and that it was continued thence into the porch of the church. I do not recollect in what manner it is reported to have begun; but they state that it ended fatally to both combatants. A rude painting in the church commemorates the event; and the accidentally natural red tinge of some of the stone, is considered as stains of blood still remaining.""

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"BARNBURGH GRANGE, (the seat of Mrs. Farrer) in the township and parish of Barnburgh; 5½ miles from Doncaster."

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"BILHAM, in the parishes of Hooton Pagnell and Barnburgh, lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; (Bilham House, the residence of the Rev. Godfrey Wright) 6 miles NW. of Doncaster, 10 from Barnsley. Pop. 74."

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"HARLINGTON, a hamlet in the township and parish of Barnburgh, liberty of Tickhill; 6 miles W. of Doncaster, 9½ from Barnsley."