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The Ancient Parish of SILKSTONE

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"SILKSTONE, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Staincross, liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Barnsley and Penistone, 10½ from Wakefield, 39 from York. Pop. 807. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints (see Churches for photograph), in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. £17. 13s. 4d. Patron, the Archbishop of York."

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

Barnby Barnsley Berry Moor Bretton Park Cannon Hall Cat Hill Champany Hill Coit Hill Crane Moor Dodworth Dodworth Bottom Eastfield

Elmhirst Fall Head Falthwaite Furnace Guyder Bottom Highfield Hood Green Hoyland Swaine Huthwaite Keresforth Hill Noblethorpe Norcrofts

Old Barnsley Pogmoor Sim Hill Stainbrough Storrs Thurgoland Toad Hole Toad Hole Hill Wentworth Castle West Bretton West Thorpe

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
  • All Saints Church, Silkstone (view 1).
  • All Saints' Church, Silkstone (view 2).
  • The ex-Ebenezer Chapel, Silkstone, now a nursery.
  • The ex-Primitive Methodist Chapel, Silkstone.
  • The Methodist Church, Silkstone Common.
  • St. Mary's Church, Church Street, Barnsley.
  • St. Edward's Church, Locke Parke, Barnsley.
  • The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Rood, Barnsley.
  • St. Paul's Church, Barnsley Old Town.
  • Westgate Primitive Methodist Chapel, Barnsley. This chapel became Barnsley Boy's Club in the 1950s and is now a theatre and a Grade 2 listed building.
  • Buckley Methodist Church, Union Court, Barnsley.
  • Wesleyan Reform Church, Smithies, Barnsley.
  • The Christadelphian Church, Blenheim Road, Barnsley.
  • The Wesleyan Reform Church, Barnsley.
  • The Church of St. John the Evangelist, Hoylandswaine.
  • The Methodist Church, Silkstone, orignally a Beathel (sic) Chapel.
  • The Methodist Church, Crane Moor, view 1.
  • The Methodist Church, Crane Moor, view 2.
  • Holy Trinity Church, Thurgoland.
  • The Methodist Church, Thurgoland.
  • The Methodist Church, Green Moor.
  • The Wesleyan Reform Church, Barnsley.
  • St John's Church, Dodworth.
  • Methodist Church, Dodworth, view 1.
  • Methodist Church, Dodworth, view 2.
  • The Wesleyan Reform Church, Dodworth.

Church Records

• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Barnsley.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Silkstone.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of West Bretton.

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 1829.
• 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 1829 Directory Yorkshire section.
• 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.

Land and Property

• Here is a transcription of a Land Deed from the year 1653, transcribed from a document in Barnsley Archives, by the Barnsley Archive Project Group.

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 Silkstone and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Military Records

• Here are the STANDING ORDERS for the 65th Regiment (of Foot).[Formed in 1758, later to become the Yorks Lancs] transcribed by Walt Norris.
• and a document detailing the recruits for his Majesties 65th Foot commanded by Lieut. Genl. Edward Urmston. These men were probably recruited to fight in the Amercan war of Independence, again transcribed by Walt Norris.

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:
  • (SE338032) Gilroyd
  • (SK281994) Green Moor
  • (SE272055) Hill Top
  • (SE280047) Kine Moor
  • (SE337056) Kingstone
  • (SE299041) Moor End
  • (SE199082) Park Head
  • (SE335060) Shaw Lands
  • (SE294045) Silkstone Common
  • (SE297018) Sim Hill

Public Records

• David Exley has extracted and indexed over a thousand names and places of residence from the Barnsley District Poll book for the General Election of 1835. These pages are hosted by the Barnsley FHS, there are a total of six pages, and links are included for jumping between the other five.

Societies

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