GENUKI Home page    Genuki<BR>Contents   GenUKI
Contents
  Yorkshire Yorkshire   West Riding, Yorkshire West Riding, Yorkshire

The Ancient Parish of DONCASTER

[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]

"DONCASTER, a market and parish-town, lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, in the soke of Doncaster; 7 miles from Tickhill, 9 from Bawtry, 11 from Thorne, 12 from Rotherham and Blythe, (Notts.) 15 from Ferrybridge and Pontefract, 16 from Worksop, (Notts.) 20 from Wakefield, 37 from York, 165 from London. Market, Saturday. Fairs, April 5 and August 5, for horses, horned cattle, &c. Bankers, Messrs. Cooke, Childers, and Co. draw on Messrs. Gosling and Sharp, 19, Fleet Street; New Bank, Messrs. Leathams, Tew, and Co. draw on Messrs. Dennison, and Co. 106, Fenchurch Street. Principal Inns, Angel, Red Lion, Rein Deer, Black Boy, and Green Dragon. Pop. 8,544. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. George, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, £32. 19s. 2d. p.r. !£100. Patron, the Archbishop of York." (There is further information for Doncaster).



Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.
  • Balby
  • Carhouse
  • Greenhouse
  • Hexthorpe
  • Langthwaite
  • Long Sandal
  • Loversall
  • Nether Hall
  • Tilts
  • Wheatley
[Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]

Archives and Libraries

Churches

Church History

Church Records

Description and Travel

Directories

Gazetteers

History

Maps

Memorial Inscriptions

Names, Geographical

Societies

Taxation


This page is copyright. Do not copy any part of this page or website other than for personal use or as given in the conditions of use.
If you have any suggestions for links to other sites that may be useful to other researchers, please use this User Links page
Web-page generated by "DB2html" data-base extraction software ©Colin Hinson 2024