BARNBROUGH, a parish in the northern division
of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-and-TICKHILL, West
riding of the county of YORK, 6 miles (W.) from Doncaster,
containing 466 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, rated in
lighted, and the inhabitants are amply supplied with
water from springs in the neighbourhood. The environs
are remarkably pleasant, and the vale of Tees abounds
worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Here is a school with
a small endowment for poor children.