Districts and Places
Holmes
Holmes - holmr water-meadow Source A Dictionary of British Place-Names in Names & Places
History
In the early 1800s, The Holmes was, in the township of Kimberworth, and parish of Rotherham, liberty of Tickhill; situated 1.25 miles from Rotherham.St Mark's Mission Church, Psalters Lane, was erected in 1888 at a cost of £700, on a site given by George W. Chambers, Esq., of Clough House. It consisted of Chancel, nave, transepts, vestry and a western turret of stone, containing one bell.
In The Holmes there were mines of ironstone, two smelting furnaces and 2 forges as early as 1160, but they appear to have been small dimensions compared with the immense Iron Works at Masbrough , founded by Samuel Walker
Bradgate Brickworks is a Site of Special Scientific Interest
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