Wickersley is a good village, occupying an elevated position on the Bawtry Road. The parish which contains 527 inhabitants is celebrated for its prolific quarries of fine soft gritstone of which immense quantities are manufactured yearly into grindstones of from 14 inches to 8 feet in diameter, for the use of grinders of Sheffield and other parts of the kingdom. In these quarries are found at a considerable depth , many antediluvian remains, or at least their impressions in stone, among which are horns, plants etc., and beautiful representations of mosaic and other carved work. The principal bed of stone is upwards of 12 yards thick, and in some places there are embedded in it large kidney-shaped stones of a grey colour, harder than gannister,a fine-grained quartzite used to line refractory furnaces, and full of metallic spangles; these are excellent materials for the reparation of roads and are sold at 2s 6d. per load by the quarry men who call them cauk.
Captain Henry Kater is patron of the rectory, and lord of the manor, which was long held by a family of its own name, but now belongs to a number of freeholders. At the enclosure in 1814, an allotment of 4s. 1d. was made for the school and poor, in lieu of the lands given by one Sibrey. The poor also have 25s. yearly from the rector, as the interest of several benefactors in his hands.
James Allertson, wheelwright
Clariss Bagshaw, corn miller
Wm. Beaumont, blacksmith
Wm.Beighton, stonemason,
Joseph Birks, shopkeeper
Rd Clayton, vict. Masons Arms
Wm Dodd, vict., Swan
Kirkby Fenton, gent
Rev. John Foster, M.A., rector
Henry Jackson, butcher
John Marsh, gent
Wm. Marsh , wheelwright
James Marshall, vict
Wm.Maudson, schoolmaster
Geo.Newbould, shopkeeper
James Shore, joiner
Rd Shore, cabinet maker
John Spurr, butcher, shopkeeper
Wm.Street, blacksmith
Wm.Trickett, shopkeeper
John Varah, stonemason
Chas Unwin, saddler
Miss Yates