In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dodworth like this:
DODWORTH, a township-chapelry in Silkstone parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Barnesley and Penistone railway, 2¾ miles W by S of Barnesley. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Barnesley. Acres, 1, 947. Real property, £12, 863; of which £8, 055 are in mines. Pop., 2, 117. Houses, 435. The property is divided among a few. Linen and other manufactures are carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120.* Patron, the Vicar of Silk-stone. The church was built in 1842. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Dodworth through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dodworth, in Barnsley and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1081
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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