History
The River Dearne reaches the A635 Barnsley Road bridge at Denby Dale. Below the bridge, the Munchcliffe Beck joins, and there is a large millpond, which supplied mills at Denby Dale.
In 1932 a typhoid outbreak killed 12 people in Denby Dale from contaminated water in Square Wood reservoir. Some years earlier water closests had been installed for houses at Quaker Bottom and the sewer drainage from these houses was made to discharge in to the Munchcliffe Beck.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Dearne
https://www.examiner.co.uk/lifestyle/family-history-80-years-typhoid-4941303
Esoteric Eric
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