Goldthorpe

Goldthorpe
Yorkshire West Riding
Goldthorpe
Location
Grid reference:	SE460043
Location:	53°32’1"N, 1°18’23"W
Data
Population:	6,051  (2021)
Post town:	Rotherham
Postcode:	S63
Dialling code:	01709
Local Government
Council:	Barnsley
Parliamentary constituency:	Wentworth and Dearne

Goldthorpe is a village in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

It was anciently a small mediæval farming village: Goldthorpe is recorded in the Domesday Book a part of the Manor of Bolton upon Dearne which was once owned by Roger de Busli.

Parish church

St John and St Mary Magdalene Church, Goldthorpe, built in 1916, is an early example of a ferro-concrete building. According to Nikolaus Pevsner, the pulpit bought by the church in 1931 is 18th-century Flemish.

History

Early prehistoric pottery, a flint flake, Bronze Age cremation sites and Romano-British ditches and field systems have been found in the Goldthorpe area suggesting ancient occupation of the area over a long period of time.

In the early 18th century Barnsley Attorney William Henry Marsden Esquire of Burntwood Hall bought the Manor of Bolton on Dearne with Goldthorpe for £10,000 including over a thousand acres of land. Goldthorpe is recorded in the 1761–1767 Inclosure Awards. The Marsden family held the manor until 1815.

The area around the village and the Dearne Valley and was a major coal mining area. In 1984 two teenage boys had died in Goldthorpe while collecting coal during the strike; a memorial to them was built in 2011.

Goldthorpe railway station opened in 1988 on the Wakefield Line.

Goldthorpe Market is located in the middle of town, next to the library. The current market day is Monday.

Sport

• Cricket: Dearne CC, established in 1926

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Goldthorpe)