Rotherham Web: History of Rotherham: The townships in 1833

History of Rotherham

The Townships in Rotherham Parish, 1833

Rotherham township contains 1140 acres of land of which the principal owners are Lord Howard of Effingham, -lord of the manor; the Walkers, of Masbro’, the Feoffees of Rotherham, and the heirs of the late Samuel Buck Esq. A memorial to Samuel Buck can be found in All Saints Church.

Rotherham
Brinsworth
Catcliffe
Dalton
Greasbrough
Kimberworth
Orgreave
Tinsley

Brinsworth is a township and scattered villages 2 miles south-west of Rotherham. It belongs chiefly to John Fullerton, Esq. the lord of the manor, within which is the hamlet and oil mill of Ickles, and an ancient hall called Haworth. During the late war, Brinsworth Common was the frequent scene of the military evolutions of the Sheffield Volunteers, who here won and lost many a bloodless battle.

Catcliffe a small village and township, two and a half miles, south of Rotherham, on a gentle eminence above the River Rother. It has 672 acres of land belonging to various proprietors, but Earl Fitzwilliam is lord of the manor. Here is a school, endowed with £10 a year, in 1702, by George Beardsail; and the poor have £4 19s. yearly, arising from the rent of a house and garden left by one Shipley. The Glass Works here, were established by Mr. John May.

Dalton comprises the three small villages of Dalton Magna, Dalton Parva and Dalton Brook, distant from 2 to 3 miles east north east of Rotherham, on the Doncaster Road; and Breck’s House, a ladies boarding-school, on the Wickersley Road. Dalton Parva, though in this township, is in Thrybergh parish. The poor have £2 11s. a year, from the bequests of Lady Mallory, and Dorothy Taylor, in 1671.

Greasbrough is a parochial chapelry, having a good village pleasantly situated on a delightful eminence, near Wentworth Park, 2 miles north of Rotherham. It comprises 2040 acres, all of which, except about 280 acres, belongs to Earl Fitzwilliam, who, whilst Viscount Milton, laid the first stone of a handsome church here, on September 29th 1826. This edifice, dedicated to St Mary was consecrated in 1828. It is in the Gothic style that prevailed in the reign o! Henry IV, and cost £4760, of which £2000 was given by Government, and the remainder, except £200, by the patron, the late Earl Fitzwiiliam. The Rev. Francis Hall is the incumbent. The benefactions to the poor are, £4 5s. per annum from land left by Jane Horsfall, in 1613; a yearly rent charge of £5 left by Wm. Spencer, in 1713; £3 yearly from Mallory’s charity; £3 10s. yearly, left by Sir Thomas Wentworth, in 1716, to which Earl Fitzwilliam adds £7 10s. for a schoolmaster; and an annnity of £25 paid to the poor rates, in lieu of a parcel of common land enclosed in 1727.

In 1826, George Matthewman, a designing boy, 16 years of age, then residing in Greasbrough, caused several of the inhabitants to be apprehended for murders and robberies, which he falsely alleged they had committed, but a London police officer, who was sent for to enquire into this strange business, soon discovered the whole to be a base invention, and the boy, who is now dead, and had even implicated his own father, suffered two years’ imprisonment for his iniquitous offence.

Haugh, a hamlet, and Parkgate Colliery, distant about a mile from the village, are both in Greasbrough township.

Kimberworth is a pleasant village, 2 miles west of Rotherham, to which its township extends, including the populous suburbs of Masbro’ and the Holmes, and the neighbouring hamlets of Blackburn Moor, Bradgate, Hill Top,and Scholes, distant from one to two miles west and north=west of Kimberworth, and bordering upon the extensive park of Wentworth. Within this township,which abounds in coal and ironstone, and about a mile east of Ecclesfield, is Grange Hall, the sylvan seat of Lord Howard of Effingham, the lord of the manor. This mansion, properly called Thundercliffe Grange, was anciently the seat of the Wombwells and the Greens,but was purchased by the third Earl of Effingham, who re-built it, near the same site, in 1777. The fourth and last Earl died in 1816. At Kimberworth is a Methodist Chapel, built in 1827; an Independent Chapel, built in 1824, and an Infant School. Near Blackburn grinding wheel is a National School, built and supported by Lady Howard. Tbe township school at Kimberworth, is endowed with £8. 18s. per annum, arising from two cottages at Gilberthorpe Hill, £4 out of the poor rates, and 32s. a-year left by Wm. Brailsford, in 1784.

Orgreave is a township of scattered dwellings on the west bank of the Rother, nearly 6 miles east of Sheffield, and 5 miles south of Rotherham. Here are Colebrook Lodge, Highfield, Rother Cottage, and some other neat villas.Read more

Tinsley is a small village and parochial chapelry, two and a half miles south-west of Rotherhain, and three and a half miles miles north-east. of Sheffield. Upon the high road, a little below the village, are two large public houses, and near to them, the Sheffield Canal terminates in the River Don, at the ancient wharf which might once have been properly called the Port of Sheffield. In Domesday Book, this manor is called Tirneslaw. It was given by the Conqueror to Roger de Busli, but it was seized by King Stephen, and given to one Mairolls, from whom it came to Roger le Bret, and from him, by marriage to the Wentworths. The original grant from King Stephen to Mairolls is still in the custody of Earl Fitzwilliam, the present lord, who is also the impropriator, and patron of the benefice, which is generally called a vicarage, as it contributes nothing to Rotherham, except towards the reparation of the parish church. Tinsley church or chapel, is a small edifice, and the Rev. James Mower is the incumbent. Read more about Tinsley. Manufacturers »