In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hemingfield like this:

HEMINGFIELD, a village in Wombwell township, Darfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 4 miles SE of Barnesley. Pop., 346. It has a post office under Barnesley, and a charity school.

Hemingfield through time

Hemingfield is now part of BARNSLEY District. Click here for graphs and data of how BARNSLEY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hemingfield itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hemingfield, in Barnsley and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25472

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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