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The Ancient Parish of HIGH HOYLAND

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"HIGH HOYLAND, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Staincross, liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles N. of Penistone, 6½ from Barnsley, 9 from Wakefield, 37 from York. Pop. 268. The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, in two medieties, each, ~£5. 3s. 4d. Patrons, Colonel and Mrs. Beaumont.

Anciently these two medieties had separate Patrons, and separate Rectors each Incumbent having distinct parsonage Houses, glebes, tithes, &c. and performed the duty alternately. Col. and Mrs. Beaumont having purchased the advowson of the second mediety of the Earl of Mexborough, in 1811, there has been but one Incumbent since."

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

Bilham Grange Bretton Dykes Busker Cisset Clayton West

Lower Cumberworth Park Gate Skelmanthorpe Toppit

Cemeteries

• The Barnsley FHS has the full Monumental inscriptions for the High Hoyland Parish Church. This includes Tombstones, Plaques and Memorial Windows, recorded in 1975 by Hilda L. Dearnley.

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
  • All Saints Church, Clayton West, view 1.
  • All Saints Church, Clayton West, view 2.
  • The United Reformed Church, Clayton West.
  • St. Aidan's Church, Skelmanthorpe, view 1.
  • St. Aidan's Church, Skelmanthorpe, view 2.

Church Records

• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of High Hoyland.
• A Database of Burials recorded in High Hoyland graveyard can be found on Alan Reardon's High Hoyland Graveyard website.

Directories

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

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 High Hoyland 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:
  • (SE260114) Park Mill

Societies

• This parish is covered by the following Society:
  • Barnsley FHS