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    1. [ROTH] Wentworth -Frost & Yeardley
    2. Graham- For pictures of Wentworth, take a look at http://www.wentworthvillage.net/index.shtml As well as pictures, this also has an interesting family tree of the Fitzwilliam family. For older pictures, I can commend (not just because it includes photographs of my grandfather and great-grandfather!) the excellent book "The Big House and The Little Village" by Roy Young, published by Wentworth Garden Centre in March 2000. I'm not sure if Hood Hill Lodge still exists as it is some years since I was in Wentworth. It was situated at the end of what was called 'The Coach Road' which ran from Hague Lane in Wentworth to the Sheffield - Leeds turnpike (now the B6135) at Hood Hill. I believe that the lodge was used by the NCB Opencast Executive at some stage. The area around the Coach Road and Spitalhouses was taken over by them in the 1940's and 1950's and accomodated the screening plant for coal taken from the opencast mines in Wentworth Park and around the village. Spitalhouses was a hamlet fairly remote from Wentworth village itself. The houses were Fitzwilliam houses and hence for workers, or retired workers from the Fitzwilliam Estate. Jim Sykes Researching: PEPPER (Wentworth, Wath and the lands between), FROGGATT (Wentworth), KITCHEN (Wentworth and Brampton), EVANS (Elsecar), CUSWORTH (Wath and Elsecar), GARTON (Cheshire and Wentworth), MOUNTAIN (Flockton, Wath and Greasbrough) and SYKES (Hoyland and Birdwell)

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