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NOTE: There are a number of Yorkshire places with similar names. Specifically Wadsworth near Halifax, Wayworth in the North Riding, and Warmsworth near Doncaster.
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Wadworth is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 1,229, reducing to 1,137 at the 2011 Census. Notable buildings in the village include Wadworth Hall and the parish church of St John the Baptist.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Wadworth from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "WADWORTH, a parish, with a village, in Doncaster district, [West Riding of]; 4 miles S of Doncaster [railway] station. It has a post-office under Doncaster. Acres: 2,930. Real property: £3,829. Pop.: 656. Houses: 156. The property is chiefly divided among five. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £140.* Patron, W. Walker, Esq. The church is later English. There are two Methodist chapels and a national school."
Historically, Wadworth was an ecclesiastical parish in the lower division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill. From 1894 until 1974, Wadworth was located in Doncaster Rural District.
Research Tips
- GENUKI on Wadworth. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
- The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Wadworth provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
- A Vision of Britain through Time on Wadworth.
- A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for what is now South Yorkshire, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (the southern part of Bradford, the southern part of Leeds, the southern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the southern part of Selby, Goole Rural District, and all the divisions of Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield)
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
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