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The Ancient Parish of NORMANTON

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"NORMANTON, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield, 4½ miles NE. of Wakefield, 5 from Pontefract, 25 from York. Pop. 250.

The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Andrew, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, ~£7. p.r. £150. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. In this Church is buried the celebrated James Torre, Esq. whose manuscript collections of the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of this county stand unrivalled. He died at Snydale, in this parish, July 31, 1699. --Drake's Ebor. Preface.

Here is a Grammar School, founded and endowed with £10. per annum, by John Fraston, Esq. in the year 1591, for all scholars of his sir name, and thirty others, out of the parishes of Normanton and Warmfield. The money is paid out of the University of Oxford."

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

Altofts Newland Park Snydale Streethouse Woodhouse

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
  • All Saints' Church, Normanton.
  • The Methodist Church (1903), Normanton.
  • The Baptist Church, Normanton.
  • The Roman Catholic Church, Normanton.
  • The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Altofts.
  • The Methodist Church, Altofts.
  • The Methodist Church, Streethouse.
  The following churches have their own websites:
  • All Saints, Normanton

Church Records

• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Normanton.

Community Websites

• Normanton

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 White's Directory of 1887.

Gazetteers

• There is further information about this parish from National Gazetteer 1868 Yorkshire extracts.
• There is further information about this parish from White's General and Commercial Directory of Wakefield, Horbury, Alverthorpe, Sandal Magna, Stanley and Normanton - 1887

History

• Information about Streethouse

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 Normanton and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Memorial Inscriptions

• Transcription and photograph of Normanton war memorial
• Transcription and photograph of Altofts war memorial
• Transcription and photograph of Streethouse and Snydale war memorial

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:
  • (SE395231) Hopetown
  • (SE381240) Lower Altofts
  • (SE408210) Snydale Hall

Societies

• This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies:
  • Wakefield and district FHS
  • Pontefract and District FHS