Wath upon Dearne Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Wath upon Dearne is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: West Melton, New Mill, Hoober, Cortwood, Cortonwood, Coley Lane, and Brampton Bierlow.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1598
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

Wath upon Dearne Parish Registers

Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire Parish Registers 1598-1778/9

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WATH-UPON-DEARNE, a small town, a township, and a sub-district, in Rotherham district, and a parish partly also in Barnsley district, W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands near the Dearne and Dove canal, and near the Midland and the South Yorkshire railways, 6 miles N of Rotherham; occupies a pleasant eminence; and has a post-office under Rotherham, two railway stations, a hotel, a mechanics’ institute, and a fair on 24 Nov.

The township comprises 1,687 acres. Real property, £40,738; of which £35,043 are in railways, and £60 in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 1,495; in 1861, 1,690. Houses, 353. The manor belongs to Earl Fitzwilliam. W. Hall is the seat of W. A. Earnshaw, Esq.; and Cross House, of W. Cadman, Esq. There are collieries, iron-works, potteries, and quarries.

The parish includes also Nether Hoyland township, and comprises 10,709 acres. Pop. in 1851, 9,521; in 1861, 13,820. Houses, 2,732. The living is a vicarage, united with Adwick-upon-Dearne in the diocese of York. Value, £315. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower and spire.

There are three Methodist chapels, an endowed school with £30 a year, a subscription school for girls, and charities £254. The p. curacies of Swinton, Kilnhurst, Wentworth, Elsecar, Brampton-Bierlow, Thorpe-Heseley, and Hoyland are separate benefices.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Rotherham
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Doncaster
  • Poor Law Union: Rotherham
  • Hundred: Strafforth and Tickhill
  • Province: York