Bolton upon Dearne, West Riding

Description
Bolton-upon-Dearne, a township and a parish in W.R. Yorkshire, on the river Dearne, with a station on the Swinton and Knottingley branch of the M.R. and N.E.R., and a post and money order office under Rotherham ; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage of township, 2323; population, 1205. The parish includes also the hamlet of Goldthorpe. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £190 with residence. The church is good, and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.