Barmbrough, West Riding

Description
Barmbrough, a township, a village, and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 3 miles from Mexborough station on the M.S. & L.R., and 6 W of Doncaster, and has a post and money order office of the name of Barmbrough under Doncaster. The parish includes also the hamlet of Harlington. Acreage, 1911; population, 509. Barmbrough Hall, which belonged to the only son of Sir Thomas More, is now the seat of the Wilson-Montagu family. There was a Roman settlement here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; net value, £395 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The church is Later English, in tolerable condition, and has interesting monuments of the Cresacres, formerly lords of the manor. There is a legend that Sir Percival Cresacre, one of this family, was killed by six wild cat, and that he killed the cat at the same time. A wooden figure of the knight with the cat under his feet lies upon the altar tomb. There is a Wesleyan chapel in the village, and some small charities.