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SILKSTONE, a village and a township in Wortley district, and a parish partly also in Barnsley, Wakefield, and Huddersfield districts, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands ½ a mile N of the Manchester and Sheffield railway, and 3¼ W by S of Barnsley; consists chiefly of one long street; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Barnsley. The township comprises 1,426 acres. Real property, £8,723; of which £5,820 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1,037; in 1861, 1,154. Houses, 222. Noblethorpe Hall is the seat of R.Clarke, Esq. The parish contains also the townships of Thurgoland, Hoyland-Swaine, Stainbrough, Barnsley, Dodworth, and parts of West Bretton and Cumberworth; and is ecclesiastically cut into the sections of Silkstone, Cawthorne, West Bretton, Cumberworth, Barnsley-St. Mary, B.-St. George, B.-St. John, Stainbrough, Dodworth, Thurgoland, and Hoyland-Swaine. Acres, 14,991. Pop. in 1851, 21,298; in 1861, 25,288. Houses, 5,050. The living of S. is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £270.* Patron, the Bishop of R. The church is ancient. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a national school, an endowed school with £29 a year, and some charities. The other eccl. sections are noticed in their own several places.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a township" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Huddersfield RegD/PLU Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Silkstone |
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