GARTHORPE is a township and village near the river Trent and on the old river Don, 2 miles north-east from Luddington, 6 north from Althorpe station on the South Yorkshire branch of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway. The Hull and Gainsborough steamers pass on the Trent, over which there is a ferry to Burton-on-Stather. The Wesleyan chapel was rebuilt 1883 and a Sunday school added in 1888, and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1838 and rebuilt in 1890. Worksop's charity consists of a charge upon property belonging to Miss Foster, of Doncaster, and amounts to £1 6s. yearly. Picklirigton’s charity is also a charge upon property owned by the same lady, and amounts to £1 4s. yearly; the total amount, viz. £2 10s. is distributed in bread to the poor of Garthorpe. Earl Manvers is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are A. C. H. Percy esq. Mrs. E. M. Goodworth, Mr. Amos Kelsey, Mr. John Kelsey and Mr. Edward Clark Foster, of Waterton Hall, and Miss Foster, of Doncaster. The area of the township is 2,185 acres of land, 180 of tidal water and 71 of foreshore; rateable value, £2,519; the population in 1891 was 518.

Parochial School (mixed), built 1852, for 80 children; average attendance, 78.