Working together with the community to preserve the history
of the village for future generations
A 1950's view of Cross Hill from the tower of St. Helen's Church
Hemsworth and its people in history.
These pages give a brief history of the village,
with interesting facts and pictures.
HEMSWORTH, West Yorkshire - is situated almost equal distance from Pontefract, Barnsley and Wakefield on the junction of the A628 (Pontefract/Barnsley) and the A638 (Doncaster/Wakefield) roads. Along with the neighbouring village of Kinsley it is mentioned in the Domesday Book which was commissioned in 1086 by William the Conqueror. The name in the Domesday book is 'Hamelsworde' being the 'worth' of a possible Saxon, named Hamel.
The Archive Group meets every Wednesday in the Community Office in
Close Street, Hemsworth on Wednesdays at 1.30pm
and welcomes new members, and visitors.
The Group would like to involve the community in making this web site
and would welcome any suggestions regarding the contents, and
what they would like to see on the site.
If you have any photographs of interest, we could scan.
please let us know.
With the help of the people mentioned below the Archive Group
are able to make this Website.
Thank you to all those who have given information over the years. Audrey Reilly, Hilda Iveson,Upton Archive Group, Eileen OReilly, Ian Oxley, Arthur Young, Upton Photographic, Charles Johnson, South Elmsall Express, Ruth Farmer, Joseph Weglaski, Clare Dukes, Edna Webster, Sandra Weglaski, Alec Woodall, Dorothy Mills, Colin Brown, Betty Iley, Ms. Peel, Edwin Belcher, Dave Holmes, Colin Nicholson, Fr. Finn, Harry Brooke, Joan Hotchkiss, Bamber Gascoign/Hemsworth, Margaret Booth, T. W, Tordoff, John Curran Mary Cutts, Mick Marshall, Herbert Barber, Horace Oxley, Susan Webster, Mary Price, Bernard Whitlam, David Garbutt,
Bill Murray, John Waterson, Ann Smith and Darren Ellis/Hemsworth Library, Derrick Mills, Fr. Keiron, Hemsworth High Schol, Bob Ancill, Dean Harper, Maureen Ardron, Gloria Forrest.
