Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ROYSTONE

ROYSTONE, a village and a township in Barnsley district, and a parish partly also in Wakefield district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the Barnsleycanal, 1½ mile W of the North Midland railway, and 4 N E by N of Barnsley; and has a station jointly with Notton on the railway, and a post-office under Barnsley. The township comprises 1,004 acres. Real property, £2, 597. Pop., 545. Houses, 121. The parish contains also the townships of Cudworth, Carlton, Notton, Monk-Breton, and Chevet, and the chapelry of Woolley. Acres, 12, 708. Pop. in 1851, 4,045; in 1861, 4, 210. Houses, 903. The property is not much divided. Woolley Park is the seat of G. Wentworth, Esq. Coalis mined, and freestone is quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £166.* Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is large and good, and has a pinnacled tower. The p. curacies of Monk-Bretton and Woolley are separate benefices. There are four dissenting chapels, an endowed grammar-school with £83 a year, another endowed school with £20, a national school, and charities £183. Sir George Wood, Baron of the Exchequer, was a native.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wakefield RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Royston

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