Adwick-on-Dearne
Domesday name: AdewicIn 1297 Ingeram Folemfaunt of Addewyck and wife Juliena gave the manor to Sir Nich de Leicester. Later it passed to the Clarells, the Foljambe's and Reresby's. Source:Nottingham Archives.
The population in the 1820s was 168. Described in 1868 as : a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, in the West Riding of the county of York. Rotherham is the post town. It is situated on the river Dearne and the Dearne and Dove canal, and is near the North Midland railway. The living is a curacy united with the vicarage of Wath , in the diocese of York, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford
St Johns Church is a small bellcot church having the same plan as in Norman days. Pebble-dashed rubble sandstone, with a Welsh slate roof, entry is by a Norman doorway within a porch. The pulpit has a star and stripe on the shield of the Washington family who are said to have been linked with America's first president. The chancel arch was replaced in 1910 by A. C. Martin of London.
Pedigree of Washington
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