Denaby Main
Domesday Book - Lands of Roger de Bully.In Newhill and Hooton Roberts and Old Denaby, Wulfheah and , Ulfkil had 6 carucates of land to the geld, where there could be 4 ploughs. Roger has now 1 plough there, and 6 villans and 6 bordars with 3 bordars, and the site of a mill. There is woodland pasture 9 furlongs long and 2 broad. TRE worth 4l ; now 30s. To these manors belongs sokeland in Maltby of half a carucate of land to the geld.
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In 1862, in the township of Mexborough. Denaby is a small village and township on the opposite bank of the Don from Mexborough, and in the higher division of Strafforth and Tickhill.
It contains 1,022 acres of land, and in 1861, 203 inhabitants. Rateable value, £1,906 1s. 7d.
John Fullerton, Esq., was the principal owner.
Farmers
John Foster
R. Jackson and shoemaker
William Parkin
William Spalton
Hugh Spooner
James Whittaker
John Wright
Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, spend much of his leisure time as a child at Old Denaby and Conisbrough.
