FELKIRK, a parish in Hemsworth district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Rotherham railway, 1 ½ mile NE of Royston and Notton r. station, and 5 NE by N of Barnesley. It contains the townships of Brierley, Shafton, South Hiendley, and Havercroft-with-Cold-Hiendley; the first of which has a post office under Barnesley. Acres, 5, 872. Real property, £8, 831. Pop., 1, 106. Houses, 248. The place which gives name to the parish is only a single farm-house. Building-stone is quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, 136.* Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is ancient but good, and has an embattled tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel. An endowed school has £19; and other charities £14.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))