Balby with Hexthorpe, West Riding

Description
Balby and Hexthorpe, are two villages forming a township in Doncaster parish, W. R. Yorkshire, on the river Don, 1 1/2 mile SW of Doncaster. Balby has a post and money order office under Doncaster. Acreage, 1613; population of the civil parish, 4270; of the ecclesiastical, 1888. Tanning, brickmaking, and sand digging are largely carried on. The corporation of Doncaster are lords of the manor and principal landowners. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church was built in 1847. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The Quakers, under George Fox, held their first meetings here.