built upon the lord of the manor's commons and certain lands which Mr. Beaumont had in the village of Cawthorne. Mr. Beaumont still retains, as we have seen, the lordship of the manor, and is also the owner of Cinder Hill and Low Mill Farms in the Parish, and of the large wood which borders them on the north, and which still retains its old name of Cawthorne Park.
Among other observable houses in the parish Flash House may be mentioned as having been for several generations the estate of the Rowley family. Over the door are the letters "J. A. R., 1729," for John and his wife Alice Rowley, in whose time the house was built or rebuilt. The same letters with the date of 1689 are found on the barn. His father, also called John, died there in 1728, in his 87th year, whilst the son, who died in 1761, saw his 91st year. The Rowley estate of Flash House was bought by the late Mr. Stanhope after the death of the father of the present Mr. C. O. Rowley, of Barnsley, in 1829. A Mr. Daniel Rowley, of the same family, was living at Barnby Furnace in the early part of the last century.
Jowett House in the Parish was for many generations connected with the Lindley family, Upper House with the Shirts, Norcroft, Upper and Lower, with the Wooffendens and the West family. The original farm-house of Hillhouse was altered and enlarged into its present form about fifteen years ago, and was the residence for a few years of Mr. Roddam Stunhope. On the footpath leading from Hillhouse to the Church we find one of the most pleasing views in the Parish or neighbourhood. Rawroyd is one of the few remaining houses which still show the style of the principal farm-houses of more than two hundred and fifty years ago, whilst Hill Top House, built of red brick, shows the comfortable family residence of a century and a half later.
