Cudworth, West Riding

Description
Cudworth, a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire, on the York and Derby railway, 3 1/2 miles NE by E of Barnsley. It was made a parish by an order in Council in 1893. It includes the villages of Upper and Lower Cudworth, and has a station with telegraph on the M.R., and a post and money order office under Barnsley. Acreage, 1744; population, 1607. The Bankes family of Winstanley Hall, Wigan, are lords of the manor and chief landowners. There are stone quarries. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. The churcli of St. John the Baptist was erected in 1893. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and an endowed school.