Cudworth is a settlement with two distinct historic centres known as Upper or Over Cudworth and Low or Nether Cudworth.

These two roads combined between Snydale Road and Royston Road as they pass through Upper Cudworth.

The two main junior football clubs in Cudworth are Dorothy Hyman West End and Cudworth Tykes JFC.

Price's main point of difference with Cudworth is that while Cudworth regards the moral criterion as a vanua or modification of the mind, existing in gere and developed by circumstances, Price regards it as acquired from the contemplation of actions, but acquired necessarily, immediately intuitively.

The main road through Cudworth was the main road from Barnsley to Pontefract throughout the middle ages and the modern era until the new Cudworth and West Green bypass which had been originally scheduled for opening in 2011.

It has three platforms and a small bus station, and lies at the junction of the former North Midland Railway main line between Rotherham Masborough and Leeds via Cudworth and the former South Yorkshire Railway line to Doncaster.

Atomic atheism is by far the more important, if only because Hobbes, the great antagonist whom Cudworth always has in view, is supposed to have held it.

Ralph Cudworth, in choosing to attack atheism in 1678, chose Strato's system as one of four types of atheism, and in doing so, coined the term hylozoism to describe any system where primitive matter is endowed with a life-force.

Cudworth singled out Hobbes not only as a defender of the hylozoic atheism " which attributes life to matter ", but also as one going beyond it and defending " hylopathian atheism, which attributes all to matter.

His father Dr. Ralph Cudworth, a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, was presented to the rectory of Aller, Somerset by his college, which held the advowson, in c. 1609 or 1610.

The whole party was more or less in sympathy with the Commonwealth, and Cudworth was consulted by John Thurloe, Cromwell's secretary to the council of state, in regard to university and government appointments.

The term theism was first used by Ralph Cudworth ( 1617 – 88 ).

However, flaws in this dating were discerned by the 17th century scholar Ralph Cudworth, who argued that Casaubon's allegation of forgery could only be applied to three of the seventeen treatises contained within the Corpus Hermeticum.

The Bolton Ings and Old Moor washlands were next to be created, to be followed by those at Wombwell Ings, where the River Dove joins the Dearne, Darfield, Houghton and Cudworth.

As 17th-century philosopher Ralph Cudworth put it: " nothing can be imagined so grossly wicked, or so foully unjust or dishonest, but if it were supposed to be commanded by this omnipotent Deity, must needs upon that hypothesis forthwith become holy, just, and righteous.

According to scholar Terence Irwin, the issue and its connection with Plato was revived by Ralph Cudworth and Samuel Clarke in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Barnsley Rural Sanitary District which included most of the Barnsley Poor Law Union of which Cudworth was a part was abolished under the 1894 Local Government Act when the Barnsley Rural District Council with elected councillors took over the responsibilities previously administered by the Poor Law Guardians.

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service have fully utilised this new road system by the building of the new Cudworth Community Fire Station at the West Green Roundabout opposite the western boundary of the village adjacent to Burton Road and Tumbling Lane.

A new chapelry district, separating Monk Bretton ( with Cudworth ) from Royston parish and enabling ' baptisms, churchings and burials ', was created by Queen Victoria by an order in Council on July 22 1843 ..

The term dates to the Milesian school of pre-socratic philosophers and in English was introduced as a concept by Ralph Cudworth in 1678.

Upon Magoun Sr .' s death at 81 in 1856, the Thatcher Magoun, a clipper ship built by Hayden & Cudworth in Medford for Thatcher Magoun & Sons, was named and launched in his memory.

The plan was approved by Worthington and Tuckney, and had the support also of John Arrowsmith, Ralph Cudworth, William Dillingham, and Benjamin Whichcote.

It was formed in 1917, as a leisure activity for the workers at the colliery, by members of the disbanded Cudworth Colliery Band.

The section between Swinton ( Wath Road Junction ) and Cudworth had been plagued by mining subsidence for years, and so in October 1968 the decision was taken for safety reasons to divert all remaining passenger traffic onto the Swinton and Knottingley Railway via Moorthorpe, and thence Wakefield Westgate.

Today the section from Swinton ( Wath Road Junction ) to Cudworth North Junction has been lifted ; the entire length of well over a mile between Wath Road Junction and the site of Wath North station itself has been eradicated by a large new area of light industry and commerce called Brookfield Park, one of the largest developments of its kind in the country and part of the Dearne Valley Enterprise Zone ( much of this area being the former site of Manvers Main Colliery and several others ), while about three quarters of a mile of the route north of Darfield is now a road ( the A6195 ).

The manor was held, around 1187, by Alan de Furneaux who gave the church and of land to Wells Cathedral to found the Cudworth prebend.

It was served by stopping trains from Sheffield Midland to York and to Leeds City via Cudworth.

" Cudworth attempted to show that Hobbes had revived the doctrines of Protagoras and was therefore subject to the criticisms which Plato had deployed against Protagoras in the Theaetetus.

At this point Cudworth stops ; he does not attempt to give any list of Moral Ideas.

* 1688-John Bunyan ; Ralph Cudworth

Literal, Philosophical, Mystical, or Divinely Moral, 1653 ; dedicated to Ralph Cudworth.

Prior to the establishment of the Poor Law Union, almost every aspect of local governance had been shared between three authorities ; the Justices of the Peace for the West Riding in their Quarter or Special sessions ; the Parish of Royston ( until 1843 ) and its Vestry, and the Manor of Cudworth with its Court Baron and Court Leet.

Cudworth was a township and a constituent part of the large rural Anglican parish of Royston until it became part of Monk Bretton parish in 1843 ; it finally became a separate Anglican parish in 1893.

In 1920, a war memorial was erected in the churchyard to commemorate the servicemen of Cudworth who died in World War I ; the men and women lost in World War II were added later.

John was not an adherent of his father's Methodist ideas ; he was reputed to have attended a prize-fight in Cudworth and was returning with his drinking companions to Barnsley when he had a Damascene moment.

In 1665 he almost quarrelled with his fellow-Platonist, Henry More, because the latter had written an ethical work which Cudworth feared would interfere with his own long-contemplated treatise on the same subject.

The aim of the work is twofold — to refute the theory of Hutcheson regarding the basis of rectitude and to establish the theory of Cudworth and Clarke that virtue is conformity to reason — the acting according to fitnesses which arise out of the eternal and immutable relations of agents to objects.

He would not accept the mastership of his college, to which, it is understood, he would have been preferred in 1654, when Ralph Cudworth was appointed.

In his thirty-third year he had already become renowned for the obstinate zeal with which he supported the falling dynasty of the Stuarts, and was rewarded for his services with the prebend and rectory of Cudworth, with the chapel of Knowle annexed, in Somerset.

Cambridge Platonists like Benjamin Whichcote and Ralph Cudworth mounted seminal attacks on voluntarist theories, paving the way for the later rationalist metaethics of Samuel Clarke and Richard Price: what emerged was a view on which eternal moral standards ( though dependent on God in some way ) exist independently of God's will and prior to God's commands.

Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, Cudworth has a busy shopping area along the Barnsley to Pontefract Road which serves a local population of 11, 644.

This was the second part of the scheme to Turnpike the road, the first, under the Act of 1825, which had seen the new roads from Barnsley built past Oakwell, Hoyle Mill and Beaver Hole to Cundy Cross and the new road from Cundy Cross to Cudworth Bridge through what later became the village of Lundwood.

Cudworth also provided several sound locomotive types for the railway, but resigned in 1876 after Sir Edward Watkin ordered 20 express locomotives against Cudworth's wishes, which subsequently proved to have been unsuccessful.