Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HARTHILL

HARTHILL, a village and a parish in the district of Worksop, and W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the boundary with Notts, 1½ mile SW of KivetonPark r. station, and 6 W of Worksop; and has a postoffice under Worksop. The parish contains also the Hamlet of Woodall; and bears the name of Harthill-withWoodall. Acres, 2, 9 40. Real property, £4, 559. Pop., 673. Houses, 147. The manor, with nearly all the property, belongs to the Duke of Leeds. Sandstone and magnesian limestone are quarried; and there are valuable seams of coal. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £686.* Patron, the Duke of Leeds. The church was originally Norman; has been more than once restored; and contains the family vault of the Osbornes. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Harthill With Woodall AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: HARTHILL     |     HARTHILL WITHWOODALL
Place: Harthill

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