Bretton, Monk, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Bretton, Monk, a large village, a township, and a parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The township is also called Burton, lies on the Barnsley Canal, has a station (Monk-Bretton) on the M.R., and is 2 miles NE of Barnsley, It includes the hamlets of Burton-Grange, Cliff-Bridge, Old Mill, and Smithies, and has a post and money order office of the name of Monk-Bretton under Barnsley, which is the telegraph office. Area of the township, 2221 acres; population, 3426; of the ecclesiastical parish, 5033. A Cluniac monastery was founded at Burton-Grange in the time of Henry II. by Adam Fitz-Swain. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; gross value, .6285 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Royston. The church was built in 1839, and rebuilt in 1877. There are also six Methodist chapels-including one at Smithies, one at Old Mill, and one at Cliff Bridge-six almshouses, and some charities. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the collieries, but paper-making, cornmilling, and stone quarrying are also carried on. The township is governed by a local board. The township of Cudworth, formerly included in Monk-Bretton parish, was made iuto a separate ecclesiastical district by Order in Council in 1893.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Royston | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Staincross |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bretton, Monk from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bretton, Monk)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: