Dodworth, West Riding

Description
Dodworth, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1848 from Silkstone parish, W. R. Yorkshire, on the Barnsley and Penistone railway, 2 miles W by S of Barnsley, with a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Barnsley. Acreage, 1916 ; population, 3106. The parish is governed by a local board of nine members. The Duke of Leeds is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wake-field ; net value, £180 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Silkstone. The church was built in 1845, and is in the Norman style. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and a mechanics' institute, with billiard, reading, and class-rooms, was opened in 1893. There are extensive collieries and several stone quarries.