Greasbrough, West Riding

Description
Greasbrough, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish within the borough of Sheffield, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on an eminence above two brooks, near the North Midland railway, 2 miles N by W of Rotherham, and has a post and money order office under Rotherham; telegraph office, Parkgate. The township includes Cinder Bridge, Bassingthorpe, Ginhouse, and parts of Lower Haugh and Parkgate. Acreage, 2456; population, 4392; the ecclesiastical parish of St Mary has a population of 2644. The manor belonged at Domesday to the Gresbrocs, in the early part of the 14th century to William de Tinsley, and afterwards passed to the Wentworths. Coal is extensively worked. There seems to have been a Roman settlement. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam, who is lord of the manor. The church was bnilt in 1828 at a cost of about £6000, and thoroughly renovated in 1893 at a cost of, £1100. It is in the Pointed style, and has a tower. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Free Methodist chapels. A church mission room was erected at Lower Haugh in 1887.