Maltby
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Maltby, High Street c1955
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.
Domesday name: Maltebi
Maltby ‘farmstead or village of a man called Malti, or where malt is made’, OScand. pers. name or malt + by: Source A Dictionary of British Place-Names in Names & Places
The Earls of Scarborough succeeded the Viscounts Castleton as Lords of the manor of Maltby in the early 18th century.
In 1980 a hoard of 56 folles of 320-333 AD date was found in the south west facing bank of the valley near Maltby. The coins were found scattered over the bank as if they had trickled out from where they were hidden. There was no evidence for a container. Site adjacent to the Blythe Road, near Hooton Levitt. At a nearby site a Roman coin hoard was found consisting of 3503 antoniniana contained in a grey coarse ware jar. The hoard contained coins of the Central Empire from Philip I to Probus and coins of the Gallic Empire from Postumus to Tetricus II. It was probably buried c.282 AD.
Described in 1822 as, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill. The seat of John Cook, Esq. Situated 4.5 miles from Tickhill, 7.5 from Rotherham, 13 from Sheffield, 47 from York. Population 679. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, in the deanry of Doncaster. Patron, the Earl of Scarborough. Here is a School founded by one of the Earls of Castleton, and repaired by his heirs. Within the communion rails of the Church lies an infant son of George Viscount Castleton, who died in 1655.
The following places were in the Parish of Maltby in 1822 :
- Brook House
- Carr
- Hooton Levitt
- Roche Abbey
- Sandbeck, the seat of the Earl of Scarborough
- Stone
- Thornborough Hill
- Woodlee Mill
- Yews, a farm-house and Paper Mill
George Rolleston, Vicar of Maltby, established a school here in 1823.
Reverend Philip Scholfield of Goulceby and his wife Anne Georgiana Sherlock(d.25/03/1878) from Tickhill, youngest daughter of Sir Thoms Sherlack Gooch of Benacre, Suffolk,was vicar in the 1890s
In 1921 a Mrs Gore-Booth was living at Maltby Hall.
Congregational services were first held in Maltby in the Council School on 22 September 1912. The first minister, Mr D.J. Lane, began work in June 1913. On 18 September 1913 he was ordained and on that day a church was opened for worship. This church was destroyed by fire on Christmas Eve 1925, but it was re-built, and the new church was opened on 2 June 1927. From 1973 the church was known as Maltby United Reformed Church. It was closed on 31 January 1983 and the remaining members were transferred to Herringthorpe United Reformed Church
Read details of the Maltby Pit Disaster of 1923
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