Ecclesall Bierlow, West Riding

Description
Ecclesall-Bierlow, a township and an ecclesiastical parish, in the W. R. Yorkshire. the township lies on the verge of the county, within Sheffield parish and county, forms one of the wards of the borough of Sheffield, includes outskirts of the town, together with numerous hamlets, and is practically a suburb of Sheffield. The hamlets comprised in the township are Whirlow, Greystones, Sharrow, Mill Houses, Carter Knowie, Kenwood, Buttonhill, Silverbill, Little Common, Abbeydale, Cherrytreehill, Machonbank, Brincliffe Edge, Nether Edge, Dobbinhill, Whiteley Wood, Bents Green, Broadoak Green; and part of Crookes Moor, Broomhall Park, Endcliffc, and Tapton are also included in it. Bannercross Hall and Hen-wood Hall are also in this township, as well as the Sheffield botanical gardens, the general cemetery, and royal grammar school. The township has a post and money order office, of the name of Ecclesall, under Sheffield; telegraph office at the railway station. It has a station on the M.R., and it shares in the cutlery and hardware trade of Sheffield, and has partaken largely of that town's prosperity. Earl Fitzwilliam is lord of the manor. Area of the township, 4328 acres; population, 68,987; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2377. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £380 with residence, in the gift of the Vicar of Sheffield. The church, situated near Bannercross, is a building in the Early English style, erected in 1788, and restored and enlarged in 1850. For further particulars, see SHEFFIELD.