ADWICK-upon-DEARNE, a parish in the northern
division of the wapeutake of STRAFFORTH and TICKHILL,
West riding of the county of YORK, 6 miles
(N. N. E.) from Rotherham, containing 168 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, hi the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, endowed with £400 royal bounty,
and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford.
The river Dearne, and the Dearne and Dove canal,
pass through the parish. Here is a mineral spring.