WENTWORTH, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Wath-upon-Dearne parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 2 miles ENE of Chapeltown r. station, and 4¾ N W of Rotherham; is a pretty place; and has a post-office under Rotherham, and a neat mechanics' institution, with a good library. The township includes three hamlets and a part, and comprises 2,308 acres. Real property, £4,681. Pop. in 1851, 1,556; in 1861, 1,650. Houses, 333. The manor, with W. House, belongs to Earl Fitzwilliam. W. House was built by the first Marquis of Rockingham; has a principal front, of centre and two wings, upwards of 600 feet long; is adorned, at the centre, with a magnificent hexastyle Corinthian portico; includes a gallery 130 feet long, and a hall 60 feet by 40; contains a rich collection of paintings and other works of art; and stands in beautiful grounds of more than 1,500 acres, containing a splendid Grecian mausoleum to the Marquis of Rockingham, in three stories, terminating in a cupola, and 90 feet high.—The chapelry is less extensive than the township. Pop., 1,273. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £125.* Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church is ancient. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, and alms-house hospitals for 12 persons.

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