Description
Cawthorne, a village and a parish in W. E. Yorkshire. The village stands 2 miles NNW of Silkstone railway station, and 4 WNW of Barnsley, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Barnsley. The parish includes Barnby-Basin, Barnby Furnace, Deykin Brook, and Norcroft. Acreage, 3708, exclusive of plantations; population of the civil parish, 1175; of the ecclesiastical, 1081. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; value, £185 with residence. The church is old, and about 1880 was enlarged and thoroughly restored; and there are Wesleyan and Re-formed Methodist chapels. There are also a public reading room, and a museum founded in 1883.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
