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Elsecar (, ) is a village in the
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in
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, England. It is near the villages of
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and south of the town of
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, south of
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and north-east of
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. Elsecar falls within the Barnsley MBC Ward of Hoyland Milton. Elsecar is unique as a name. It is thought to derive from the
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personal name of ''Aelfsige'' (mentioned in Cartulary of
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, 1259–66) and the
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word kjarr, denoting a marsh or brushwood. From the late 18th century, Elsecar was transformed into an 'industrial estate village' for nearby
Wentworth Woodhouse Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It is currently owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust. The building has m ...
, with multiple collieries and two major ironworks.https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/6-2019 It is seen as one of the UK's first model villages and a precursor to Saltaire. A 1795
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at the Elsecar New Colliery is the oldest steam engine still in situ, anywhere in the world.https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1004790?section=official-list-entry The village now attracts over 500,000 visitors each year, to its heritage centre, historic sites and award-winning park.


History

In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Elsecar as having a population of 1912 and 353 dwelling places. The village had developed rapidly since a century before, when it had been just a handful of cottages around a village green and a scattering of shallow coal pits, in a valley alongside an ancient stream.


An Industrial Estate Village

Elsecar's development from the late 18th century can be seen as a microcosm of the whole Industrial Revolution in Britain. The village was nothing more than a series of farms until the 18th century. Although coal had been mined in the area since the 14th century, the first major colliery, Elsecar Old, was not sunk until 1750. It was taken on by the Marquis of Rockingham in 1752, later consolidated onto a hilltop to the west of the village and is thought to have been painted by George Stubbs, around the same time he painted Whistle Jacket. The village was transformed from the 1790s at the direction of the 4th Earl Fitzwilliam of
Wentworth Woodhouse Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It is currently owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust. The building has m ...
, with the sinking of its first deep colliery, the cutting of a canal, the building of two ironworks and associated housing designed by architect John Carr of York. As a result, Elsecar is now recognised to be one of the first model villages in the UK and a precursor to historic places such as Saltaire. The subsequent development and expansion of the village continued to be closely overseen by the Fitzwilliam dynasty. Uniquely in Europe, Elsecar is understood to have been an 'industrial estate village', built and operated in addition to the family's traditional aristocratic estate village of Wentworth. Additions to the village instructed by the Earls in the mid 19th century included rows of miners and ironworkers' cottages, a miners lodging house, church, indoor market, coaching inn, school, cricket club and architecturally impressive workshops, known as the New Yard. A private railway station for the Earl, including a waiting room for privileged and Royal guests, was added in 1870 and now serves as a nursery for local children.


The Elsecar Collieries

The Earls oversaw expansion of deep coalmining and sinking of new collieries for over a century and maintained a direct controlling interest in the management of the village's collieries until nationalisation in 1947. In 1794-5, the village's first deep colliery was sunk, a few metres to the east of the village's proposed canal basin. Over the following years, Elsecar New Colliery was expanded and the original Elsecar (Old) Colliery modernised. In the 1840s and 1850s, two state-of-the-art collieries were sunk, Simon Wood and Elsecar Low (later renamed Hemingfield). The latter survives, has been rescued and is now in community ownership. In 1851, Queen Victoria was taken outside the
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, to see a column of Barnsley Seam coal which had been somehow mined intact by Elsecar miners and taken to London. The last colliery to open was Elsecar Main in 1908.
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went underground there in 1912, for which he received respect and recognition, as news had come through that morning of a terrible disaster at Cadeby Colliery. King George was not the first Royal to go underground in the UK, as he acknowledged during his visit. King William IV, when Duke of Clarence, had been taken into Elsecar Old Colliery in 1828. Elsecar Main Colliery was closed in October 1983. Many Elsecar colliers went to work at Cortonwood, just down the canal towpath, where a few months later the Miners Strike of 1984-5 began. Elsecar Workshops were sold off by
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soon after, ending the village's ties to the coal industry. In the following years, the village suffered from severe economic and social problems, as did all the mining villages in the region. The mid-1990s saw the repurposing of the former colliery workshops into a new visitor destination,
Elsecar Heritage Centre Elsecar Heritage Centre is a visitor attraction centre in Elsecar, Barnsley, England. Operated by Barnsley Museums, it has independent shops, studios, galleries, cafes and a large antiques centre in former Victorian engineering workshops. A vis ...
.


The Elsecar Newcomen Engine

During the sinking of the Elsecar New Colliery in 1795, Earl Fitzwilliam had a large atmospheric beam engine installed to pump water from deep underground. It is of the type invented by
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in 1712. Newcomen invented the world's first practical steam engine, creating mechanical power using steam for the first time. Newcomen's genius was to use the force of atmospheric pressure acting on a piston at the top of a steam-filled cylinder, into which water had been injected to create a vacuum, to move the piston and a beam attached to it.
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made the steam engine far more efficient half a century later, but by that time Newcomen engines were widely established and powering industry across the UK and further afield. Now a Scheduled Ancient Monument, the Elsecar Newcomen is understood to be the oldest steam engine in the world still in situ where it was originally built. The engine pumped water from the colliery workings from 1795 to 1923. In 1928, Henry Ford visited Elsecar and tried to purchase the engine to take it back to his new museum in America. His request was refused by Earl Fitzwilliam. In 2014, a major project was completed to rescue and conserve the engine, supported by Barnsley Council, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England. It now runs on hydraulics with regular open days from Easter to October each year when visitors can also look down the New Colliery mineshafts.


The Elsecar & Milton Ironworks

John and William Darwin & Co. of Sheffield opened the first furnace at Elsecar Ironworks (at the bottom of Forge Lane) in 1795. In 1799 another ironworks was founded at Milton, by the Walker Brothers of Rotherham, less than a mile to the west of Elsecar, on a hilltop in full view of the village of Wentworth just across the valley. The Earls maintained a close involvement in the village's two ironworks. Although leased to a series of major ironmasters from their establishment in the 1790s to closure in the 1880s. the ironworks were at times managed direct as part of the Wentworth Woodhouse estate. In the second half of the 19th century, both ironworks were leased and operated together by famous ironmakers the Dawes Brothers, originally from West Bromwich. In 1838 a horse-drawn
tramroad A plateway is an early kind of railway, tramway or wagonway, where the rails are made from cast iron. They were mainly used for about 50 years up to 1830, though some continued later. Plateways consisted of "L"-shaped rails, where the flange o ...
was constructed to link the
Dearne and Dove Canal The Dearne and Dove Canal ran for almost ten miles through South Yorkshire, England from Swinton to Barnsley through nineteen locks, rising . The canal also had two short branches, the Worsbrough branch and the Elsecar branch, both about two ...
with the Milton Ironworks, Tankersley Park ironstone mines, Lidgett Colliery and the Thorncliffe Ironworks at Chapeltown.
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s were used for the incline sections, and remained in operation until about 1880. The two Elsecar Ironworks are credited with a variety of major achievements, including making iron for John Rennie's bridge over the Thames at Southwark which opened in 1819, bridges designed for the Isle de Bourbon (now Reunion) by
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, the steam engine at
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on the Cromford Canal, iron with which armour plate was rolled for HMS Warrior and replacement bridges for Sheffield when the city's bridges were destroyed in the
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of 1864.Two smaller family-run forges were also established in the mid 19th century and survived well into the 20th century, including the Davey Brothers foundry, whose drain and manhole covers can still be seen across the village. The two main Elsecar ironworks were closed in the 1880s. The Milton Ironworks was on the site of what is now the Forge Playing Field. Remains include what's left of the blast wall, a bank running across the field, and furnace ponds by The Furnace pub. The Elsecar ironworks is once of the best surviving industrial complexes from the mid-19th century. After the ironworks was closed in the 1880s, its buildings were integrated into the colliery workshops and the ironworks largely forgotten until very recently. A Scheduled Ancient Monument as of 2018, the casting shed, rolling mill, workshop, entrance arch and offices have survived intact. The impressive blast wall, blowing engine house, waggon ways, ironworks reservoir and charging plateau have survived in ruinous form and plans are being made for their future conservation.


The Elsecar Valley

The landscape around the village has extensive archaeological remains and historic sites, which can be explored on organised guided tours. They include ironworks ruins and ponds, furnace charging plateau, collieries, bell pits, footrills, mineshafts, waggon ways, the industrial canal and reservoir, canal basins, early-Victorian railway, clinker-reinforced trackways, lime kiln sites, coking furnaces and much else. Built heritage that survives in the village is similarly extensive, including miners and ironworkers housing, historic pubs, cricket club, parsonage, vicarage, toll house, miners lodging house, the Milton Hall exhibition hall, the church, steam mill, two schools, and the extensive buildings of the New Yard workshops and Elsecar Ironworks.


Elsecar-by-the-Sea

In 1910 a local amateur photographer, Herbert Parkin, took photographs of families paddling in the local
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and sent them into the ''
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'' with the caption Elsecar-by-the-Sea. The name caught on and with the help of a good transport link from Sheffield via the local
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, a thriving tourism business was established. Between the wars, Hoyland Nether Urban District Council created a public park to take advantage of the influx of visitors, on land granted by Earl Fitzwilliam, adding a boating jetty to the reservoir, a pavilion cafe and bandstands. The village flourished as 'the seaside resort at the heart of the Yorkshire coalfield'. Since 2008, the name Elsecar-by-the-Sea has been used for the village gala, which takes place in the park each September.


The Elsecar Heritage Action Zone

In March 2017 Elsecar was designated as one of ten Heritage Action Zones (HAZ) by
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with the benefit that the area would receive a share of £6 million. As part of the HAZ project, in 2019 a Historic Area Assessment was developed, "intended to illustrate the varied character and significance of the village and its setting in order to inform interpretation, conservation and development under the direction of revised planning guidance". To inform this, there was an extensive programme of historical research, archaeology, architectural investigation and community involvement. Of particular note, two major community digs, planned and carried out involving dozens of volunteers, took place on the Milton Ironworks and the New Colliery boiler house. In 2017 Caesium
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(GPR) and Earth Resistance
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(ERT) surveys were conducted at Elsecar to attempt to determine the location of a number of former industrial buildings. A major legacy of the Elsecar Heritage Action Zone was the creation of two new Scheduled Ancient Monuments at Hemingfield Colliery and the Elsecar Ironworks, the extension of the village conservation areas and extensive listings, creating many new Grade II* listed buildings.


Attractions

Elsecar Heritage Centre Elsecar Heritage Centre is a visitor attraction centre in Elsecar, Barnsley, England. Operated by Barnsley Museums, it has independent shops, studios, galleries, cafes and a large antiques centre in former Victorian engineering workshops. A vis ...
is a visitor attraction based in the former New Yard colliery workshops. Operated by Barnsley Museums, it has independent shops, studios, galleries, cafes and a large antiques centre.http://www.elsecar-heritage.com A visitor centre and regular tours share the unique history of the village, and includes a highly detailed digital reconstruction of the village and valley as it was in the 1880. The former rolling mill of the Elsecar Ironworks is now a major event space, with standing capacity of up to 1000 people. Elsecar Park has a
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, children's playground, a cafe, and a pitch and putt
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. The reservoir, now a local
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, is adjacent to the upper park. The landscape and valley have extensive archaeological remains, but many are on private land or in dangerous locations. It is recommended that all visitors keep to public rights of way or take organised tours.


Transport

Elsecar has its own
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on the Hallam and
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lines so it is possible to make direct journeys to Barnsley, Sheffield,
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,
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, and
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. Buses run to and from Barnsley,
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and Sheffield. Elsecar Junction was located on the Woodhead Line, some distance from Elsecar, close to the
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. The line including the marshalling yard closed in 1988.
Elsecar Heritage Railway The Elsecar Heritage Railway (EHR) is located on the southern part of the former South Yorkshire Railway freight-only branch which ran from Elsecar Junction on its Mexborough to Barnsley Line. The Elsecar Heritage Railway operated an out and b ...
was based next to the heritage centre. It ran a pleasure service between Rockingham Station, a replica station built in the 1990s in the centre of the Elsecar Ironworks, and Hemingfield Canal Basin, although passengers could not alight at Hemingfield Basin. The charitable trust which operated the railway ceased operating the line at the start of the COVID pandemic and in July 2020 handed their lease back to the local Council. The Council has released statements that it hopes to create a sustainable future for a new heritage railway attraction in the village. In 1793 An Act of Parliament authorised the making of the
Dearne and Dove Canal The Dearne and Dove Canal ran for almost ten miles through South Yorkshire, England from Swinton to Barnsley through nineteen locks, rising . The canal also had two short branches, the Worsbrough branch and the Elsecar branch, both about two ...
between Swinton and Barnsley, with two branches, one to
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and another to Elsecar at a location then known as Cobcar
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. The canal was later extended into the centre of village, next to the New Colliery and Elsecar Ironworks, and was fully opened in 1798. The upper stretch of the canal was restored in the 1990s. Its towpath is now part of the
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and has recently been restored and widened with funding from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority.


Sport

The village has its own
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club, established in 1854, which plays in the
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. It also has several junior teams that play in the Barnsley & District Junior Cricket Association. It was represented in the
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by
Elsecar Main F.C. Elsecar Main F.C. was an English association football club based in Elsecar, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. History The club was formed early in the 20th century as Elsecar Athletic and entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1906 after winning the ...
in the 1900s.


Notable people

*
George Utley George Utley (16 May 1887 – 8 January 1966) was an English footballer who played for Barnsley, Sheffield United and England. He was strong and powerful half back who could shoot at goal when required. Utley was born in Reform Row, Elsecar, ...
, football player, was born in Reform Row in Elsecar. * Sir Thomas Tomlinson Kt, BEM, JP (1877–1959), served two terms as chairman of the West Riding County Council, lived in Elsecar. * Arthur O'Loughlin, retired undefeated world kickboxing champion, lives in Elsecar. *
Bobby Knutt Robert Andrew Wass (25 November 1945 – 25 September 2017), known professionally as Bobby Knutt, was an English actor and comedian. He was known throughout his acting career for appearing as Albert Dingle in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'' ...
, comedian and entertainer, lived in Elsecar for several years. *Laban Solomon (d. 1903), hymn composer and a favourite of Queen Victoria, lived on Church Street and is buried in Elsecar churchyard beneath a kneeling angel.


Photos

File:Old Row cottages Elsecar March 2017.jpg, Former miners' and steelworkers' cottages by the village green File:Miners Lodging House Elsecar March 2017.jpg, Former lodging house for miners (1853) File:Milton Hall Elsecar March 2017.jpg, Milton Hall Community Centre (1870) File:The Market Inn Elsecar March 2017.jpg, The Market Inn File:The Inclined Plane - geograph.org.uk - 1535505.jpg, Inclined Plane on the former tramway


See also

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Listed buildings in Hoyland Milton Hoyland Milton is a ward in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The ward contains 35 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, eleven are listed at Grade II*, the ...
*
Dearne and Dove Canal The Dearne and Dove Canal ran for almost ten miles through South Yorkshire, England from Swinton to Barnsley through nineteen locks, rising . The canal also had two short branches, the Worsbrough branch and the Elsecar branch, both about two ...
*
Elsecar Heritage Centre Elsecar Heritage Centre is a visitor attraction centre in Elsecar, Barnsley, England. Operated by Barnsley Museums, it has independent shops, studios, galleries, cafes and a large antiques centre in former Victorian engineering workshops. A vis ...
* Elsecar railway station *
Elsecar Heritage Railway The Elsecar Heritage Railway (EHR) is located on the southern part of the former South Yorkshire Railway freight-only branch which ran from Elsecar Junction on its Mexborough to Barnsley Line. The Elsecar Heritage Railway operated an out and b ...
*
Elsecar Collieries The Elsecar Collieries were the coal mines sunk in and around Elsecar, a small village to the south of Barnsley in what is now South Yorkshire, but was traditionally in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The last operating mine, Elsecar Main, close ...


References


Population figures
* Howse, Geoffrey (1999), Around Hoyland, Sutton Publishing Limited, * Howse, Geoffrey (2000), Around Hoyland A Second Selection, Sutton Publishing Limited, * Howse, Geoffrey (2002) Around Hoyland People & Places, Sutton Publishing,


External links


Council Website

Elsecar Heritage Centre

Elsecar Community Website

Photo site of Hoyland area featuring Elsecar
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