Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KIMBERWORTH

KIMBERWORTH, a village, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district in Rotherham district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 2 miles WNW of Rotherham r. station; is a large place; and has a post office under Rotherham. The township contains also the hamlets of Blackburn, Bradgate, Hill-Top, Holmes, Jordan, Masbrough, Nether-Fold, Scholes, and part of Thorpe-Hesley; comprises 2, 940 acres; and is in Rotherham parish. Real property, £72, 874; of which £1, 008 are in mines, £119 in quarries, £2, 960 in ironworks, £30, 000 in canals, and £12, 000 in railways. Pop. in 1851, 6, 952; in 1861, 10, 610. Houses, 2, 182. The manor belonged, at Domesday, to Elsy; passed then, or soon afterwards, to Roger de Busle; and was, at that time, part of the honour of Pickhill. Grange Hall, about 2 miles W of the village, was formerly the seat of the Earl of Effingham. Ironstone was worked in forges, at Kimberworth, so early as 1161; continued to be worked, on apparently a a large scale, for generations afterwards; and was worked, at Tannocliffe or Thundercliffe, by the monks of Kirkstead, who had a handsome residence here for the accommodation of one of their number superintending their property. Coal is now worked; and a local railway goes from Holmes to the Greasbrough canal and coalfield.—The chapelry includes only a portion of the township, and was constituted in 1843. Pop. in 1861, 3, 848. Houses, 773. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £150. * Patron, the Vicar of Rotherham. The church was built in 1843; is a plain structure, in the pointed style; and was enlarged in 1865. There are, in the chapelry, a Wesleyan chapel and national schools; and, in other parts of the township, two other Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and a monument to Admiral Keppell.—The sub-district contains Kimberworth and Greasbrough townships and Rawmarsh parish. Acres, 7, 717. Pop., 17, 921. Houses, 3, 670.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kimberworth CP/Tn       Rotherham RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Kimberworth

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