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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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BRAMPTON-BIERLOW, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Wath-upon-Dearne parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the South Yorkshire railway and to the Dove and Dearne canal, 2 ½ miles WNW of Wath r. station, and 5 N of Rotherham. The township includes also the hamlets of Coley-Lane, Cartwood, Hoober, New-Mill, and West Melton, and part of the hamlet of Elsecar, which has a post office under Rotherham. Acres, 3,074. Real property, £9,221; of which £2,700 are in mines. Pop., 1,938. Houses, 374. The property is divided among a few. There are iron foundries.—The chapelry was constituted in 1856, and is less extensive than the township. Pop., 1,733. Houses, 341. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Wath. The church is very good. There are an Independent chapel, a well-endowed national school. and charities £56.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Brampton Bierlow Tn/CP Wath upon Dearne CP/AP Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Brampton Bierlow |
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