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DODWORTH, a township-chapelry in Silkstone parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Barnesley and Penistone railway, 2¾ miles W by S of Barnesley. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Barnesley. Acres, 1, 947. Real property, £12, 863; of which £8, 055 are in mines. Pop., 2, 117. Houses, 435. The property is divided among a few. Linen and other manufactures are carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120.* Patron, the Vicar of Silk-stone. The church was built in 1842. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Yorkshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Dodworth |
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