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The Ancient Parish of BARWICK IN ELMET

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"BARWICK IN ELMET, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract; 7 miles from Tadcaster and Wetherby, 8 from Leeds, 16 from York. Pop. 1,481. The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, £33. 12s. 6d. Patron, the King, as Duke of Lancaster.

This place is said to have been the seat of the Kings of Northumberland, and Dr. Whitaker supposes it to have been founded by the great Edwin; "the great extent and magnificence of this fortification, which is four furlongs in circumference, and contains an area of more that thirteen acres, sufficiently prove that it has been a royal work." The mount, called Hall Tower Hill, hath been encompassed by a double trench; on this mount most probably stood the royal mansion: it is now the only part that remains. This manor was afterwards part of the possessions of the Lacys; Roger de Lacy having married the sister of William de Vesey, Rector of the parish. From the Lacys it descended to the Dukes of Lancaster, to which duchy it has been ever since annexed.

Elmet was not conquered from the Britons till Edwin's reign, in 560, by the Saxons. --Turner's Anglo Saxons."

Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.

Barnbow Cross Gates Hobberley House Kiddal Kiddal Inn Lazencroft Morwick Potterton

Red Hall Roundhay Schole's Plain Scholes Scholes Grange Stank House Stanks

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
  • All Saints' Church, Barwick in Elmet (view 1).
  • All Saints' Church, Barwick in Elmet (view 2).
  • The Methodist Church, Barwick in Elmet.
  • The Methodist Church, Cross Gates.
  • St. Theresa's Roman Catholic Church, Cross Gates.
  • St. John's Church, Roundhay (view 1).
  • St. John's Church, Roundhay (view 2).
  • The Methodist Church, Roundhay, Leeds.
  • The Christadelphian Hall, North Lane, Oakwood, Leeds.
  • St. Philip and St. James's Church, Scholes.
  • The Methodist Church, Scholes.
  • The Methodist Church, Stanks.
  • The Baptist Church, Swarcliffe.
  • St. Luke's Church, Swarcliffe.
  • St. Gregory's Roman Catholic Church, Swarcliffe.
• The following Churches have their own websites:
  • St. John's Church, Roundhay
  • St. Edmund's, Roundhay.
  • Roundhay Methodist Church
  • St. Paul's Church, Whinmoor.

Church Records

• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Barwick in Elmet.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Roundhay.

Directories

• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Baines's Directory and Gazetteer Directory of 1822.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Pigot's Directory of 1834.

Gazetteers

• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1834 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from National Gazetteer 1868 Yorkshire extracts.

Maps

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• For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
• For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
• Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
• View maps of Barwick in Elmet and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Names (Geographical)

• The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
  • (SE377377) Arthursdale
  • (SE371360) Barnbow Carr
  • (SE346369) Beechwood
  • (SE400395) Kiddal Lane End
  • (SE315380) Lidgett Park
  • (SE348376) Monkswood
  • (SE374352) Pendas Fields
  • (SE371392) Sandhills
  • (SE364361) Swarcliffe
  • (SE352380) Wellington Hill
  • (SE361367) Whinmoor

Societies

• The Barwick-in-Elmet Historical Society was established in 1984 to research, record, and publish the history of the parish from the earliest to recent times.
• This parish is covered by the following Family History Society:
  • Yorkshire Archaeological Society, FH Section