He was vicar of Elsecar Parish Church near Barnsley, Yorkshire for a number of years, and also played cricket with notable success for the Elsecar village team.
Geoffrey Howse, actor, author and local historian, as a boy in the mid-1950s until 1965, lived in Ebenezer Place (now demolished).
George Henry (or George Harry) Hirst (17 May 1879, Elsecar – 13 November 1933, Darfield, South Yorkshire) was a British politician, elected Labour Member of Parliament for Wentworth when the constituency was created in 1918.
There were another four locks up to the junction with the Elsecar branch, which lay between Brampton and Wombwell at the junction of the Dearne Valley Parkway and the A633.
Elsecar has been a mainly agricultural village situated on the Wentworth estate of Earl Fitzwilliam.
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The Ironworks opened in 1795 on a site near the head of the Elsecar Branch of the Dearne and Dove Canal.
Geoffrey Howse, actor, author and local historian, was brought up in Elsecar and Hoyland.
Elsecar, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England was, until the 18th century, a mainly agricultural village on the estate of Earl Fitzwilliam.