In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Rawmarsh like this:
RAWMARSH, a village and a parish in Rotherham district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the Doncaster and Sheffield railway, 2¼ miles N by E of Rotherham; and has a station on the railway, a post-office under Rotherham, and a temperance hall. The parish contains also the hamlets of Upper Haugh and Stubbin, and parts of Lower Haugh, Parkgate, and Kilnhurst. ...
Acres, 2, 448. Real property, £26, 258. Pop.in 1851, 2, 533; in 1861, 4, 374. Houses, 880. Rose Hill and Parkgate are chief residences. There are collieries, iron-works, steel-rolling mills, potteries, and chemical-works. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £600.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The parochial church, excepting the tower, was rebuilt in 1839; and a church at Parkgate was built shortly before1868. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, an endowed school with £62 a year, and charities £73.
Rawmarsh through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Rawmarsh, in Rotherham and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1087
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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