Nether Hoyland Yorkshire Family History Guide
Nether Hoyland is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1741 from a chapelry in Wath upon Dearne Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Upper Hoyland, Stubbin, Hoyland Lane End, Broadcarr, Broadcar, and part of the village of Elsecar.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1740
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1748
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HOYLAND (NETHER), a village, a township, and a chapelry in Wath-upon-Dearne parish, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands 1 mile E of the South Yorkshire railway, and 5 SE by S of Barnsley; is a large place; and has a station, jointly with Birdwell, on the railway, and a post-office, of the name of Hoyland, under Barnsley.
The township contains also the hamlets of Broadcar, Hoyland-Lane-End, Upper Hoyland, and Stubbin, and part of the village of Elsecar. Acres, 2, 012. Real property, £21, 978; of which £11, 550 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 2, 912; in 1861, 5, 352. Houses, 1, 013. The increase of pop. arose from increase of employment in collieries, brickyards, iron foundries, and rolling mills. The extensive iron works, called the Milton and Elsecar furnaces, are here. The manor, and much of the land, belong to Earl Fitzwilliam.
The chapelry excludes a part of the township, which is within Elsecar chapelry. Pop., 3, 645. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £400. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church was rebuilt in 1830; is in the pointed style; and consists of nave and chancel, with tower and lofty spire.
There are five dissenting chapels, a mechanics’ institution, a national school, and charities £7.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Barnsley
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Doncaster
- Poor Law Union: Barnsley
- Hundred: Strafforth and Tickhill
- Province: York