BOLTON-upon-DEARNE, a parish in the northern
division of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-and-TICKHILL,
West riding of the county of YORK, 7 miles
(N. by E.) from Rotherham, containing 623 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, rated in the king's
books at £6. 15. 5., endowed with £800 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of W. Marsden, Esq. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew. A statute fair
for hiring servants is held on the second Thursday in
November. There is a charitable fund from which
£11. 10. are paid annually for the instruction of twenty.
poor children, principally arising from a bequest by
Richard Bingley, in 1756, and one by Elizabeth Pashley,
in 1759.