In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Greasborough like this:
GREASBROUGH, a village and a chapelry, in Rotherham parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on an eminence above two brooks, gear the North Midland railway, 2 miles N by W of Rotherham; and has a post office under Rotherham. The chapelry includes also Cinder Bridge hamlet, and parts of Lower Haugh and Parkgate hamlets. ...
Acres, 2, 329. Real property, £10, 245; of which £94 are in qualities, £2, 450 in mines, and £1, 002 in iron works. Pop. in 1851, 2, 01 7; in 1861, 2, 937. Houses, 608. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged, at Domesday, to the Gresbrocs; belonged, in the early part of the 14th century, to William de Tinsley; and passed to the Wegtworths. Coal and slate are extensively worked. There seems to have been a Roman settlement; and there are ruins of an ancient monastery. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £179. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church was built in 1828, at a cost of £4, 750; is in the pointed style; and has a tower. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Free Methodists, a national school, and charities £33.
Greasborough through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Greasborough, in Rotherham and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1020
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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