Cantley, West Riding

Description
Cantley, a village and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire, near the river Idle, 3 1/2 miles ESE of Doncaster stations on the G.N.R. and M.S. & L.R. The parish includes the hamlets of Bessecar, Branton, and High and Low Ellers. It has a post office under Doncaster, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 5590; population, 547. Cantley Hall is the seat of the Childers family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; value, £471 with residence. The church is good.