Adwick-on-Dearne
Domesday name: Adewic.Domesday Book - Lands of Roger de Bully. In Adwick-upon-Dearne, Wulfheah and Regnvald had 2½ carucates of land to the geld, where there could be 2 ploughs. Roger has now 1 plough there; and 16 villans with 4 ploughs, and 1 mill rendering 5s. There is woodland pasture 7 furlongs long and 3 broad. TRE worth 40s ; now 30s.
In 1297 Ingeram Folemfaunt of Addewyck and wife Juliena gave the manor to Sir Nich de Leicester. Later it passed to the Clarells, the Foljambe's and Reresby's. Source:Nottingham Archives.
The population in the 1820s was 168. Described in 1868 as : a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, in the West Riding of the county of York. Rotherham is the post town. It is situated on the river Dearne and the Dearne and Dove canal, and is near the North Midland railway. The living is a curacy united with the vicarage of Wath , in the diocese of York, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford
Described in 1879 - The parish, which had 215 inhabitants in 1871, comprises 1137 acres of rich land, and 5 acres of water. All the parish, with the exception of one small freehold, is the property of Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont, Earl Manvers. The Church is a small antique fabric, consisting of nave, chancel, porch and gable belfry. The living is annexed to Wath vicarage.
Post, via Rotherham, but Mexborough is the nearest Money Order Office and Railway Station.
Mrs. Ann Adams
Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, vict. Manvers Arms
Thomas Adsetts, Farmer
William Booth, Butcher and Farmer
Mrs. Ann Dyson, Day School
Jarvis Gandy, Farmer
William Huntingdon, Blacksmith
Manvers Main Colliery Co. Coal Owners; John Frederick Thomson, Manager
Alfred Mawson, Farmer
Henry Moorhouse, Shoemaker
William Newsum, Wheelwright
Christopher Norwood, Farmer
Edwin Norwood, Farmer
Thomas Revill, Coal Dealer and Cart Owner
William Ward, Colliery Viewer
James White, Farmer and Corn Miller, Mexborough
St Johns Church is a small bellcot church having the same plan as in Norman days. Pebble-dashed rubble sandstone, with a Welsh slate roof, entry is by a Norman doorway within a porch. The pulpit has a star and stripe on the shield of the Washington family who are said to have been linked with America's first president. The chancel arch was replaced in 1910 by A. C. Martin of London.
