In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Worsbrough like this:
WORSBROUGH, a township, two chapelries, and a sub-district, in Barnsley district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the South Yorkshire railway and on a branch of the Dearne and Dove canal, 2½ miles S by E of Barnsley; is in Darfield parish; contains W., W.-Dale, W.-Common, and Blacker villages and seven hamlets; and has a r. ...
station at Birdwell, and post-offices of Worsbrough-Dale‡ and Worsbrough-Bridge under Barnsley. Acres, 3,594. Real property, £31,760; of which £19,480 are in mines, and £25 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 4,277; in 1861, 5,381. Houses, 1,076. The property is subdivided. W. manor belongs to F. W. Wentworth, Esq.; and Darley manor, to J. Jeffcock, Esq. W. Hall, Darley Hall, Ouselthwaite, and Round Green are chief residences. There are extensive collieries, iron-works, chemical works, glass-works, gunpowder-mills, paper-mills, and corn mills. The chapelries are St. Mary and St. Thomas; and the livings are vicarages in the diocese of York. Value of St. Mary, £120;* of St. Thomas, £113. St. Mary's church was mostly rebuilt in 1839; and is in the later English style, with tower and spire. St. Thomas' church was built in 1859, at a cost of £3,500; and is in the early English style, with tower and spire. There are four dissenting chapels, two endowed schools with £31 a year, and charities £46.—The sub-district includes Stainbrough township, and comprises 5,286 acres. Pop., 5,851. Houses, 1,174.
Worsbrough through time
Worsbrough is now part of Barnsley district. Click here for graphs and data of how Barnsley has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Worsbrough itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Worsbrough, in Barnsley and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/963
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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