Worsborough is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1722 from a chapelry in Darfield Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Worsbrough
Other places in the parish include: Worsbrough Dale, Worsbrough Common, Worsborough Green, Worsborough Dale, Ward Green, Swaith, Pinden Oaks, Pantry Green, Ouslethwaite, Lob Wood, Blacker, and Birdwell.
Riding: West Riding
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1559
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Methodist New Connexion and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WORSBROUGH, a township, two chapelries, and a sub-district, in Barnsley district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The township lies on the South Yorkshire railway and on a branch of the Dearne and Dove canal, 2½ miles S by E of Barnsley; is in Darfield parish; contains W., W.-Dale, W.-Common, and Blacker villages and seven hamlets; and has a r. station at Birdwell, and post-offices of Worsbrough-Dale and Worsbrough-Bridge under Barnsley.
Acres, 3,594. Real property, £31,760; of which £19,480 are in mines, and £25 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 4,277; in 1861, 5,381. Houses, 1,076. The property is subdivided. W. manor belongs to F. W. Wentworth, Esq.; and Darley manor, to J. Jeffcock, Esq. W. Hall, Darley Hall, Ouselthwaite, and Round Green are chief residences. There are extensive collieries, iron-works, chemical works, glass-works, gunpowder-mills, paper-mills, and corn mills.
The chapelries are St. Mary and St. Thomas; and the livings are vicarages in the diocese of York. Value of St. Mary, £120; of St. Thomas, £113. St. Mary’s church was mostly rebuilt in 1839; and is in the later English style, with tower and spire. St. Thomas’ church was built in 1859, at a cost of £3,500; and is in the early English style, with tower and spire. There are four dissenting chapels, two endowed schools with £31 a year, and charities £46.
The sub-district includes Stainbrough township, and comprises 5,286 acres. Pop., 5,851. Houses, 1,174.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Balk Langdale A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire 1822
Balk, f. h. in the township of Worsbrough, and parish of Darfield; 3 miles from Barnsley, 9 from Rotherham.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire By Thomas Langdale. Second Edition. Printed and Sold by J. Langdale; and sold by T. Langdale, Ripon. 1822.
Bank Top – Langdale A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire 1822
Bank-Top, s. h. in the township of Worsbrough, and parish of Darfield, wapentake of Staincross, 1 ¼ mile from Barnsley.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire By Thomas Langdale. Second Edition. Printed and Sold by J. Langdale; and sold by T. Langdale, Ripon. 1822.
Parish Records
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England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough-Dale
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough – Cemeteries ( 3 )
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrouogh, St. Thomas’ Church, cemetery records, 1887-1932
Author: Church of England. St. Thomas’ and St. James’ Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute
Memorial inscriptions
Author: Barnsley Family History Society
St. Mary’s, Worsbrough, index to registers, 1559-1837
Author: Morton, William; Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Worsborough, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Barnsley Family History Society index to 1851 census : vol. 14, Worsbrough inc. Birdwell & Blacker Hill
Author: Barnsley Family History Society
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough – Church records ( 10 )
Bishop’s transcripts for St. Mary’s Church, Worsbrough, 1600-1862
Author: Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough Bridge, St. James, parish registers, 1907-1941
Author: Church of England. St. Thomas’ and St. James’ Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough, parish registers, 1559-1933
Author: Church of England. St. Thomas’ and St. James’ Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough, St. Luke’s Church, 1917-1936
Author: Church of England. St. Luke’s (Worsbrough, Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrouogh, St. Thomas’ Church, cemetery records, 1887-1932
Author: Church of England. St. Thomas’ and St. James’ Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute
Parish chest material, including lists and accounts of churchwardens and overseers of the poor, 1648-1872
Author: Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire)
Parish register transcripts, 1559-1812
Author: Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire); Ashurst, D.; Ashurst, F. E.
Parish registers for St. Thomas’ Church, Worsbrough, 1859-1914
Author: Church of England. St. Thomas’ and St. James’ Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire)
The parish registers of Worsbrough (West Riding) : baptisms 1559-1812, marriages 1565-1812, burials 1569-1812
Author: Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Parish Register Section
Parish registers of Worsbrough, 1559-1922
Author: Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Worsborough, Yorks., Eng
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough Dale, St. Thomas, parish registers, 1859-1947
Author: Church of England. St. Thomas’ and St. James’ Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute
St. Mary’s, Worsbrough, index to registers, 1559-1837
Author: Morton, William; Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough – History ( 1 )
Worsborough : its historical associations and rural attractions
Author: Wilkinson, Joseph
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest material, including lists and accounts of churchwardens and overseers of the poor, 1648-1872
Author: Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Worsbrough, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Worsbrough – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Worsbrough township, 1784-1830
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
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: Staincross
- Province: York
