PARKGATE is a large village, hamlet, and ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1869 from the parishes of Rawmarsh and Rotherham, 2 miles north from Rotherham, 7 northeast from Sheffield, 12 ½ from Doncaster, and 168 from London, in the Southern division of the Riding, Rotherham union and county court district, Wath rural deanery, archdeaconry and diocese of York. Christ Church, erected by subscription, and consecrated in August 1868, is a building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave and north aisle, with bell turret and 1 bell, and has sittings for 650, all free and unappropriated. The register dates from the year 1868. The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the Archbishop of York, yearly value £300, and is held by the Rev. Edward Wynne F.R.G.S.; the vicarage house is a Gothic building, erected at a cost of £1,500. There are chapels for Catholics, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyan Reformers; a United Methodist Free Church has also been erected at a cost of £2,000. Here are the extensive works of the Parkgate Iron Company Limited, the steel works of Messrs. William Oxley and Co. those of the Roundwood Colliery Co. Limited, the extensive collieries of John Brown and Co. Limited and several brick works. Earl Fitzwilliam is principal landowner. The area is 624 acres; the population in 1871 was 3,807, but is now about 6,000.

National school (mixed & infants), for 700 children, principally supported by Earl Fitzwilliam; John Wharton, master; Miss Sarah Jane Kirkpatrick, mistress; Miss Mary E. Douglas, infants’ mistress.