Thrybergh Hall
The estates of Thrybergh together with Denaby and Brinsworth were purchased by John Savile of Methley from Sir William Reresby, about 1700. They passed to his son Samuel Savile and after his death in 1735, the estate passed to his Samuel's daughter Elizabeth, who had married the Hon. John Finch, son of the Earl of Ailesford. Their only child Savile Finch died in 1780 without heirs and left his estates to his wife Judith, daughter of John Fullerton. From Judith the estate came into the hands of the Fullerton family who owned it until the 1920s. The original house stood near the church and has now gone.
Thrybergh Park was a largely wooded area and around 1814 much of the timber was felled and sold, making large profits for the owners. About 1820 Col. John Fullerton employed John Webb to build a new house in Tudor revival style with Gothic details in the park at a respectable distance from the village. The house is set well back from the main road amid the rolling greens and woods.
The Fullertons ceased to live at Thrybergh at the beginning of the 20th Century. In 1903 the Rotherham Golf Club leased the park as a golf course and the Hall became the clubhouse. The original nine hole course was extended to 18 holes. In 1929 JSH Fullerton sold the Hall and park to Herbert Hey of Harrogate from whom the club were able to purchase the freehold for £9,000.
At about the time Thrybergh Hall was built a dower house was also erected and I believe that this is the building now known as the Manor House.
The older Thrybergh Hall was near St Leonard's Church but I have no information about it. When I walked that way the site of the old hall was not even obvious. However there was an old barn next door which was in very poor condition. I have not been that way again to see if it has been done up.