NOTTON is a township and village in the parish of Royston, 1 mile south-west from the Royaton and Notton station on the Midland railway, 5 miles north from Barnsley and 5 south from Wakefield, in the Southern division of the Riding, petty sessional division of Barnsley, wapentake of Staincross, union and county court district of Barnsley, situated on an eminence, above the source of a small rivulet. This township includes a portion of the hamlet of Staincross, which is mostly in the parish of Darton. Godfrey Hawksworth Wentworth esq. of Woolley Park, is lord of the manor and sole proprietor. Notton Park is a wood. The soil is clayey; subsoil is stony. The crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 2,053a. 2r. 33p. including 350 acres of woodland; rateable value, £6,945 1s. 5d.; and the population in 1871 was 218 and is now 175.