Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WADWORTH

WADWORTH, a parish, with a village, in Doncaster district, W. R. Yorkshire; 4 miles S of Doncaster r. station. It has a post-office under Doncaster. Acres, 2,930. Real property, £3,829. Pop., 656. Houses, 156. The property is chiefly divided among five. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £140.* Patron, W. Walker, Esq. The church is later English. There are two Methodist chapels and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wadworth CP/AP       Doncaster RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Wadworth

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