GENUKI: Arksey

The Ancient Parish of ARKSEY

[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"ARKSEY, a parish-town, in the township of Bentley with Arksey, lower division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 3½ miles N. from Doncaster, 9 from Thorne, 35 from York. Pop. included in Bentley. The Church is a vicarage dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, £12. 17s. 6d. p.r. £109. Patron, Sir George Cooke, Bart.

Here is a Free Grammar School endowed by the Will of Bryan Cooke, Esq. dated January 3rd, 1660, and built by the will Of Sir George Cooke, Bart., in 1683; and an Hospital for twelve of the poorest and oldest people in the parish."

Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.

Almholme
Bentley
Bodles
Bridge Foot
Shaftholme
Stockbridge

Churches

Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- All Saints' Church, Arksey.
- St. Peter's Church, Bentley.
- The Methodist Church, Bentley.
- The Baptist Church, Bentley.
- Mount Hermon Evangelical Church, Bentley.
- Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church, Bentley.
- The Church of St Philip and St James, New Village (view 1).
- The Church of St Philip and St James, New Village, Bentley (view 2).
- The Methodist Church, Scawthorpe.
- Cornerstone Wesleyan Reform Church, Bentley.
- The Pentecostal Church, Bentley.
- The Pentecostal Church, Bentley.

Church History

Transcript of the entry for Arksey in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".

Church Records

The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Arksey.

Directories

Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.

Gazetteers

There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, Yorkshire extracts.
There is further information about this parish from the Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer 1750, Yorkshire extracts.

Maps

For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.

Memorial Inscriptions

The 1914-18 and 1939-45 War Memorial in St. Philip and St. James' Churchyard, New Village.

Names, Geographical

The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
- (SE565048) Bentley Rise
- (SE566065) New Village
- (SE565068) Rostholme
- (SE555055) Scawthorpe
- (SE545050) Sunnyfields

Schools

Arksey with Bentley - the School, from the "Endowed Charities W.R. Yorkshire and Sheffield", transcribed by Alan Longbottom.

Societies

This parish is covered by the following Society:
- Doncaster and District FHS

Taxation

A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.

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