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636 ",Va-th-upon-Dearne. • MU8croft Samuel, shopkeeper Ridgill Richard, painter and plumber Thompson Mr J oseph Rash Mr Absolam Roberts Miss Mary, day school Thomson Jph. Fredk. colliery managr Nash Mrs Ann RobinsonWilliam, vid. Saracen's Head Thorpe Jas. farmer & vict. Cross Keys National School; George & Mrs Eliza. Rodgers Samuel, surveyor to Loral Tofield l\Iiss Anua Maria beth Caseley, teachers Board, manager of Gas Works, TomlinW m.cabinet mkr.&furniture dlr Newhill and Milton Main Coal Co. blacksmith, contractor, &c. Haw Tray l\Iatthew Peter, farmer (lim.); Thoma!! Willis, secretary thorn cottage Utley Dennis, bookkeeper; h Elseear Nicholson Beckitt (N., Saunders & N.) Roebuck Mr J ames U tley J ames, brewer, Wath Brewery; Nicholson George Pearson (N., Saun Saunders George Morley, solicitor h West Melton del'S & N.) (Nicholson, S. & Nicholson) Wade John, joiner, builder, and Nicholson, Sl\unders & Nicholson, so Scott George Bingham, shoemaker moulding and planing mills licitors, clerks to Burial Board, to Shaw William, machine owner Walker John, farmer, Wath wood Local Board, and to Improvement Shepherd Mr George Ward William, colliery viewer Commissioners, llnd agents for N 01' Siddall Mr J oseph Wardell Frank Newby, H.M. inspector wich Union Insurance Co. Silcock William, shopkeeper of mines Nothard Mrs Ann Sleigh Henry, shopkeeper W ath Main Colliery Co. coal owners; Palframan J ames, butcher and farmer Spooner Rev Edwin, curate George Shaw, general manager Palmer George, joiner Stables Charles, victualler, Star Iun Watson Thos. butcher and cattle dealr Partington Rev Henry, lILA, J.P. Stables J ames, beerhouse Whitworth Spedding, maltster; and vicar and rural dean I Stanley Charles Luther (Charles & Rotherham Pass Mrs Frances Son) ; h Sandygate house 'Willis Geo. farmer and colliery mangr Pearson Mr John Stanley Charles & Son, oil and tillage Willis Thomas, secretary to Newhill Pepper William, butcher and farmer mfrs. South Yorkshire Oil Works and l\Iilton Main Colliery Co. Pickering Rev Miles Bristow (Wesln.) Sume l\Iatthew, l\I.R.C.V.S.L. veteri- WinstanleyJas.vict.l\Ianvers MainInn Pollard Henry, earthenware dealer nary surgeon, The Hawthorn 1Yright Miss Elizabeth, East cottage Race Benjamin, butcher Stubley George, shopkeeper RAILWAy-Midland Station; William Reckless Mr Henry, Woodgrove Sutton l\Iis.~ Alice, Oaklands Allen, station master. M., S. !t L. Reckless Richd. baker & confectioner Tasker Wm. M. plumber and painter Station; Stephn. Bowring, statnmstr R~eder Thomas, 801icitor (Nicholson, Thomas Henry, farmer CARRIERS pass through to Rotherham Saunders & ~icholson) Thomas John, sexton, Cemetery lodge and Sheffield on market days WENTWORTH is a t{)wnship and a large village, near the western verge of Wentworth Park, 8 miles N. of Sheffield, in Wath-upon-Dearne parish, Rotherham union,. county court district, petty sessional division, polling district, York archdeaconry, and Wath rural deanery. Wentworth township, which includes part of the village of Thorpe Hesley, and the hamlets of Ashes, Ashcroft, Spittal Houses, Wentworth, Barrow, Barley Hole, Harley, and Hood Hill, the last of which is on the Sheffield and Barnsley turnpike. Earl Fitzwilliam is lord of the manor and owner of the soil. The new CHURCH (Holy Trinity) was consecrated by the Archbishop of York on July 31, 1877, the founda tion-stone having been laid on June 14, 18i3. It stands on a prominent site near the old Church, of which th~ only remains are the fine old Italian porch, two Norman columns (said to have been removed from Bretton Priory), and the tower and chancel; the latter has been turned into a mortuary chapel, and contains some monuments of the Went worth family. The new Church has been built in the Early English style, freely treated, from designs by 1.\11'. J. L. Pell.rson, of London, and consists of chancel, nave, with clerestory, north and south aisles, two transepts, vestry, and a tapering spire 196 feet high. The floor is beautifully paved with mosaic, and the edifice has handsome groined ceilings, while along the sides of the nave and aisles runs the dog-tooth and the nail-head mouldings. The pulpit, reading desk, and communion rails are of English oak, as are the open seats. An organ has been built in the north transept by l\Ir. H. Willis, of London, at a cost of £800, raised by subscription. The south transept is reserved for the use of the Fitzwilliam family, but the remainder of the church is free and unappropriated, accommodating 540 persons. The church has been built by the children of Charles William, Earl Fitzwilliam, in memory of their parents, and its total cost amounted to about £25,000. The benefice is a vicarage, valued at £225, in the patronage of Lord Fitzwilliam, Rnd incumbency of the Rev. Henry A. ~Iacnaghten, M.A., who is also chaplain to Earl Fitzwilliam, and ha.s a. vicarage house, erected about 1830 by his lordship. In the village is a small WESLEYAN CHAPEL, erected in 1834. Barrow School was founded by the Hon. Thomas ~Wentworth in 1716, and endowed with 7 acres of land and a. yearly rent-charge of £65. The Girls' National and Infants' School was built by "Earl Fitzwilliam in 1837. \Yentworth Mechanics' Institute occupies a neat building, erected by the late Earl Fitzwilliam, in 1814-5, and has a library of 2DOO volumes. A Reading Room and Library containing 200 volumes has been opened by the Vicar. Th8 benefactions given by the 'Yentworth family to the curate and the poor produce upwards of £200 a year. The Hospitals for six poor men and six poor women were founded by the Earl of Strafford in 1697, and endowed with 7 acres of land and a yearly rent-charge of £65. The poor have several other charities. WENTWORTH HOUSE, the splendid seat of Earl Fitzwilliam, is pleabi.mtly situated in an extensive and well-wooded park, 1 mile E. of Welltworth village, 8 miles N. by E. of Sheffield, and 4 miles N.N.W. of Rotherham. This magni ficent edifice, which consists of a centre and two Wings, has a front of exquisite architecture, 600 feet in length j and the portico is peculiarly elegant. The hall is 60 feet square and 40 feet high, with a gallery 10 feet wide running round the whole, and supported by 18 Ionic pillars, the intervening niches of which are ornamented with fine marble statues. The gallery at the end of the hall is 130 feet long by 18 wide; and there are spread over the various apart ments a number of exquisite paintings from the pencils of Guido, Panlo Giordano, Carracci, Titian, Lucll. Giordano, and Spagnoletto. The banqueting hfl.ll, fitted. up about 1834, at great expense, presents the most superb display of gilt plaster-work in the North of England. The PARK comprises 1500 acres of beautifully variegated ground, clothed with wood, embellished with expanses of water, and extending southward into the towllRhip of Greasbl'ough, being about 2t miles in length and more than 2 in breadth. The ]\'IAUSOLEUM was erected by the second Earl Fitz william, in honour of his revered uncle. This superb monument, which is built of frecstone, stands on an eminence to the right of the grand entrance into the park on thE:' Hotherham road. It is 90 feet high, and consists of three divisions. The first is a square Doric basement; the second storey is of the same form, but of the Ionic order, each of its four sides opening into an arch and disclosing a beautiful sarcophagus standing in the centre. On the frieze of the entablature oyer the arches is this inscription in Roman characters :-' THIS l\10~UMENT WAS ERECTEn BY 'WENT-.