GREASBROUGH, a chapelry in that part of the
parish of ROTHERHAM which is in the northern division
of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-AND-TICKHILL, West
riding of the county of YORK, 2 miles (N. by W.) from
Rotherham, containing 1252 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
York, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £600
royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of Earl Fitzwilliam. The chapel is dedicated
to the Holy Trinity. An additional chapel is now being
erected by the Commissioners appointed under the late
act for promoting the erection of churches and chapels.
Here is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.