Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRAMWITH (Kirk)

BRAMWITH (Kirk), a parish in Doncaster district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Stainforth and Keadby canal, and on the Doncaster and Keadby railway, 6¾ miles NE by N of Doncaster. It has a station, of the name of Bramwith, on the railway; it includes the hamlets of Braithwaite and Hawkhouse-Green, and part of the hamlet of Kirkhouse-Green; and its Post Town is Stainforth, under Rotherham. Acres, 1,260. Real property,-£2,564. Pop., 226. Houses, 54. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £517.* Patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kirk Bramwith CP/AP       Doncaster RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: BRAMWITH     |     BRAMWITH KIRK     |     KIRK BRAMWITH
Place: Kirk Bramwith

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