Woodlaithes Village
Map showing Woodlaithes, 1890.
Originally part of the Manor of Conisbrough
In 1727, George Platt, a mason from Lyme, Cheshire, married Elizabeth Rickard of Doncaster. They lived at Red House, Woodlaithes where there son John Platt (1728-1810), the famous architect and mason, was born.
In the 1870s Woodlaithes consisted of a farm.
Doncaster Archives hold the 1858 Tithe apportionments and maps for Conisbrough, Firsby, Woodlaithes and Flanderwell.
In the early 1900's when houses were built to accomodate miners from Silverwood pit, the area was called Sunnyside.
Woodlaithes Village is a recent housing development
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The 1891 census for Dalton shows one family living at Wood Laithes - the Spencers.
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