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The Ancient Parish of KIRKBURTON

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"KIRKBURTON, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield, 6 miles SE. of Huddersfield, 8 from Penistone, 11 from Wakefield, 39 from York. Pop. 2,153. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to Holy Trinity, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, £13. 6s. 8d. Patron, the King.

The name and situation of this place, led Dr. Whitaker to conjecture, that a Saxon Fort once stood there. "Accordingly, at this place, the parish church, from, which there is a steep declivity on the north and west, the appearance of a ditch on the south, and a deep and narrow lane, at a corresponding distance on the east has every appearance of a Saxon Fort, though the keep has been levelled. In addition to these appearances, a small dike immediately adjoining to the Northeast, is still called the Old Saxe Dyke.

The present Church, built in the reign of Edward III. pays a pension of £4. per annum, as a mark of its dependence upon that ancient and fruitful Mother of Churches, Dewsbury, from which, it appears to have been severed, about the time of the first Earl of Warren.

The Burtons may be traced as Lords of this Manor, to the highest period of local names, in 1455, Edward Kaye, of Woodsome, Esq. was owner of this manor, by marriage of Isabel the daughter of Thomas Burton: it is now the property of Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart. of Denby Grange, his descendant. Whitaker's Loidis Elmete."

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

Arrunden Barnside Cartworth Fulstone Greenside Haddingley Hardingley Hepworth Highburton Holmfirth

Lane Head Linfit Lane Maythorn Meltham House Nether Shepley New Mill Royd House Scholes Scholes Cave Shelley Shelley Hill Top

Shepley Storthes Hall Thorncliffe Thurstonland Thuskin Holes Totties Town End Upper Cumberworth Wood Row Wooldale

Cemeteries

• Transcriptions of the Monumental Inscriptions for Thurstonland, complete with photographs of the graves can be found on Roger Gill's web site.

Charities

• A transcription of the Holmfirth District Technical Institute charity information from the 1899 Endowed Charities, W.R. Yorkshire and Sheffield.

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
  • All Hallows' Church, Kirkburton.
  • Christ Church, New Mill.
  • Emmanuel Church, Shelley.
  • St. Andrew's Church, Thongsbridge.

Church Records

• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Holmfirth.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Kirkburton.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of New Mill.

Description and Travel

• Garry Stockdill's Yorksview website contains a description and photographs of Holmfirth.
• There are photographs of the Holmfirth area available for free download from the freefoto.com website.
• Holmfirth (on the Yorkshire tour.co.uk site)

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 Kirkburton and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Memorial Inscriptions

• A transcription of the 1914-18 and 1939-1945 War Memorial Shepley.

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:
  • (SE172060) Barnside
  • (SE192121) Causeway Foot
  • (SE188142) Dogley Lane
  • (SE173115) Green Side
  • (SE147054) Hade Edge
  • (SE139058) Hades
  • (SE152039) Harden
  • (SE194134) Highburton
  • (SE127071) Hinchliffe Mill
  • (SE164075) Jackson Bridge
  • (SE190087) Lane Head
  • (SE208125) Lane Head
  • (SE145061) Longley
  • (SE168070) Meal Hill
  • (SE165089) New Mill
  • (SE157075) Paris
  • (SE214123) Royd House
  • (SE219110) Shelley Woodhouse
  • (SE154099) Thongsbridge
  • (SE188115) Thunder Bridge
  • (SE152088) Totties
  • (SE146078) Under Bank
  • (SE178054) Victoria
  • (SE142066) Washpit

Societies

• This parish is covered by the following Society:
  • Huddersfield and District FHS