In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chapeltown like this:
CHAPELTOWN, a chapelry in Ecclesfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the Sheffield and Barnesley railway, 7 miles N of Sheffield. It has a post office‡ under Sheffield, and a station, jointly with Thorncliffe, on the railway. It was constituted in 1844. Pop., 4,063. Houses, 797. Many of the inhabitants are colliers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1860. There are three dissenting chapels, two public schools, and endowed alms-houses with £130 a year.
Additional information about this locality is available for Ecclesfield
Chapeltown through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Chapeltown, in Sheffield and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25425
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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