Oxspring
| Oxspring | |
| Yorkshire West Riding | |
|---|---|
 Oxspring Post Office | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE270020 |
| Location: | 53°30’50"N, 1°35’38"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,225 (2011) |
| Post town: | Sheffield |
| Postcode: | S36 |
| Dialling code: | 01226 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Barnsley |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Barnsley West and Penistone |
| Website: | http://www.oxspring-parish.com |
Oxspring is a village in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The 2011 census recorded a population of 1,225, over a parish which includes such hamlets as Clays-Green, Roughbirchworth and Storrs.
The village stand on the south-west bank of the River Don with the main village being between the Sheffield Road (B6462) and the route of the Trans Pennine Trail. On the other side of the river is the A629, part of which is called Oxspring Lane, indicating the position of the original hamlet (now High Oxspring Farm).
The parish church, St Aidan’s, doubles as a community hall.
There are three public houses, the Waggon and Horses on the B6462, The Smithy Arms on Bower Hill and the Travellers Inn on the A629. There is a small amount of industry at the north-west end.
History
At the time of the Domesday Book the manor of Oxspring (then Ospring) was owned by Lord Swein, who also owned neighbouring [Rough]Birchworth. The book records the combined manors as having the very small value of 2 geld units.[1]
This place continued to be a collections of isolated buildings and farms for centuries, with Oxspring Lodge completed in 1580, and demolished.[2] The 1772 map by Thomas Jefferys shows the name on the north-east side of the River Don, roughly what is now known as High Oxspring. Thus the present main habitation on the south-west side mainly dates from industrial activity in the eighteenth century onwards. The Waggon and Horses dates from this time, being converted from a farmhouse and smithy.[3]
When the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway was being built in the middle of the eighteenth century, a barn here was used to house the navvies who built it.[3] The River Don in this area was used to power mills, initially for corn, but later for cloth.[2] In the nineteenth century a wire drawing industry developed and there are still wire drawing mills and associated companies today.[2]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Oxspring) |
References
- Hey, David: 'A History of Penistone and District' (Casemate Publishers, 2002) ISBN 1783378980
- Crossland, Phyllis: 'Years of Grace: A Biographical Story of Life in a Rural Area of England, 1850-1973' (Hallamshire Press, 1984) ISBN 1-874718-45-8
- Oxspring Neighbourhood Plan
- 'Walks in the Parish of Oxspring': Oxspring Parish Council