Holmes
Holmes - holmr water-meadow
History
In the early 1800s, The Holmes was, in the township of Kimberworth, and parish of Rotherham, liberty of Tickhill; situated 1.25 miles from Rotherham. Holmes Hall, a plain, square brick building, with its back to the railway was the residence of the Earls of Effingham.
St Mark's Mission Church, Psalters Lane, was erected in 1888 at a cost of £700, on a site given by George W. Chambers, Esq., of Clough House. It consisted of Chancel, nave, transepts, vestry and a western turret of stone, containing one bell.
In The Holmes there were mines of ironstone, two smelting furnaces and 2 forges as early as 1160, but they appear to have been small dimensions compared with the immense Iron Works at Masbrough , founded by Samuel Walker
At Holmes station, the road from the Holmes to Masbrough - Salter's Lane, used to cross the railway
The following is a copy of an advert about a proposed estate at Holmes
HOLMES ESTATE,SITE OF ROTHERHAM NEW TOWN.
The owner of this extensive and valuable estate has instructed Mr. William Flockton, Architect, to lay out some of the best parts, in Convenient Lots for Building Purposes. It is a circumstance of rare occurrence that an opportunity for investing Capital to such advantage presents itself. The vast increase in the Value of Property in particular Districts, consequent on those magnificent Works, the Railways, in no place exceeds, if it equals, the advantages obtained in the immediate neighbourhood of Rotherham, but more especially on the Holmes Estate. The Grand Line of Communication from the North to the South of Great Britain by the North Midland Railway. The Sheffield and Rotherham Railway joining hand in hand the two Towns ; and the New Canal of the River Don ; all these pass in different directions through the Estate, giving an almost Unparalleled Facility of Communication from the very threshold of Manufactories erected here, with all parts of this realm, and the whole World. Few persons will doubt but that along the line of the North Midland Railway, and at the Junction of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway and Canal, with the North Midland, a new Town will of necessity spring up. Here will be the Stations and Warehouses of the two Railways and Canal ; and it is not improbable that the celebrated Cattle Market of Rotherham will be removed to adjoin the Railways. As a Situation for Manufactories, it stands without a rival. The Neighbouring Lands abound with Minerals of the first Quality ; there is an exhaustless supply of excellent water for Steam Power, an article frequently of more value for that purpose than the Land itself. It is the prevailing opinion that the heavier branches of the Sheffield Trade will be gradually removed into this Neighbourhood; and of this there can be no doubt, when the immense advantages to be obtained are so apparent. Distance from Sheffield, and insufficient roads, might have been fairly urged against this opinion before the Railway was established ; but now there is the best of roads, and the distance is annihilated. A Merchant may leave his Villa oil the West of Sheffield, and be at his Works near Rotherham in little more than fifteen minutes. Lots of Land to suit the convenience of persons will be laid out along the line of, and having a frontage, to the Canal and Railways. The price will be such as to induce persons to embark thrir Capital on this eligible Site ; and also those who have no immediate intention of building to take plots prospectively. It is impossible to state the price in an advertisement, as it will, of course, vary with the situation.
Plans of the estate may be seen, and further particulars had, at the offices of
MR. VV. FLOCKTON, ARCHITECT,
DEVONSHIRE STREET, SHEFFIELD
