Aughton, West Riding

Description
Aston-with-Aughton, a township, a village, and a parish in W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies near the river Rother, 2 miles from Woodhouse Mill station on the M.R., and 5 E of Rotherham, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office, of the name of Aston, under Rotherham. Area of the township 3006 acres; population, 2927. The parish includes also part of the township of Ulley. The manor belonged formerly to the D'Arcys, and belongs now to the Verelst family, who are the principal landowners, and reside at Aston Hall, a fine mansion standing in a large park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; gross value, £600. Patron, the Duke of Leeds. The church is ancient, and contains a monument to Lord D'Arcy and his three wives, and a Norman font. There are Baptist and Methodist chapels. The Rev. William Mason, the editor of Gray's poems and the author of Isis and other poems, was rector. There are two collieries in this parish.