MEXBOROUGH, a parish partly in the liberty of
ST-PETER-of-YORK, but chiefly in the southern division
of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-and-TICKHILL,
West riding of the county of YORK, comprising the
townships of Dannaby and Mexborough, and containing
1006 inhabitants, of which number, 865 are in the
township of Mexborough, 6 miles (N. E. by N.) from
Rotherham. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Archdeacon
of York, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200
royal bounty, and £1500 parliamentary grant. A celebrated
battle was anciently fought at this place, then
called Maizebel, between Aurelius Ambrosius and the
Saxons, in which the latter were defeated.