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The Ancient Parish of WAKEFIELD

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"WAKEFIELD, a market and parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield, 5 miles from Dewsbury, 9 from Leeds and Pontefract, 10 from Barnsley, 13 from Huddersfield and Aberford, 15 from Bradford, 20 from Doncaster, 25 from York, 182 from London. Market, Friday. Fairs, July 4 and 5, for pedlary ware; November 11 and 12, for horses, horned cattle, &c. and every other Wednesday, for horned cattle. Bankers, Messrs. Leathams, Tew, Trueman, and Co. draw on Messrs. Dennison and Co, 106, Fenchurch Street; Messrs. Wentworth, Chaloner, and Rishworth, draw on Messrs. Wentworth, and Co. 25, Threadneedle Street. Principal Inns, White Hart, Strafford Arms, George, Black Bull, and Woodman Inn. Pop. 10,764. There are two Churches, the parish church is a vicarage, dedicated to All Saints, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, £20. 19s. 2d. Patron, the King. The other is called St. John's Church, value, p.r. £100. Patron, the Vicar of All-Saints." (There is further information for Wakefield).

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

Alverthorpe Brandy Carr Flanshaw Hatfield Hall Horbury Lingwell Gate

Lupsett Hall Moor House Newton Silcoates Stanley Stanley Hall

Thornes Thorns House Wakefield Lodge West Hall Wrenthorpe

Cemeteries

• Information about cemeteries in the Wakefield Metropolitan District

Census

• Angela Petyt has transcribed the census returns for Laycock, Volunteer and Albion Yards, Kirkgate, Wakefield for the years 1851-1891.
• Carol Sklinar has transcribed the 1891 census returns for Wakefield Institutions (prison, asylum, workhouse etc.)

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches within the Ancient Parish of Wakefield:
  • The Church of England Churches.
  • The Churches of other denominations.
• Contact information for Church of England parishes in the Wakefield Diocese
• Photographs and descriptions of churches in the Wakefield area
• The following churches have their own websites:
  • Wakefield Cathedral
  • St. James' Church Thornes
  • The new West Wakefield Methodist Church opened in 2003. This church is an amalgamation of Dewsbury Road (now demolished), Westgate End (now True Vine Christian Fellowship) and Wesley Hall (now demolished) Methodist churches.

Church Records

• Transcription of Horbury St. Peter and St. Leonard parish registers Baptisms and Burials 1770-1791
• Transcription of Horbury St. Peter and St. Leonard parish registers Baptisms and Burials 1792-1798
• Transcription of Horbury St. Peter and St. Leonard parish registers Baptisms and Burials 1799-1805
• Transcription of Horbury St. Peter and St. Leonard parish registers Baptisms and Burials 1806-1812
• Transcription of Horbury St. Peter and St. Leonard parish registers Marriages 1774-1812
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Alverthorpe.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Horbury.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Stanley.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Thornes.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Wakefield.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Modern Parish of Wakefield St John.
• A transcription of the List of Vicars in The Cathedral, Wakefield.

Community Websites

• The Wrenthorpe Community Website is a free resource for the people of Wrenthorpe and others. It contains a history of Wrenthorpe along with local community information.

Description and Travel

• Garry Stockdill's Yorksview website contains a description and photographs of Wakefield.

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.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in White's Directory of 1887.

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.
• 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

• Wakefield District Council site - includes various local history information
• 'Twixt Aire and Calder - an online archive of digital images of old photographs, maps, prints and postcards from library collections across the Wakefield Metropolitan District.
• Angela Petyt's History of Wakefield page - from prehistoric times to World War One.
• Carol Sklinar's Wakefield Family History Sharing site - lots of local history, transcripts, photographs and a mailing list
• Joseph Court's site covering Wakefield area history (including Alverthorpe and Stanley) with information about Wakefield Cathedral and Public Houses in the City old and new.
• There is a History section for the district of Wrenthorpe on the Wrenthorpe.org website.
• The Manor and Lordship of Wakefield
• Robin Hood of Wakefield - the famous outlaw's Yorkshire links
• 'A Descriptive History of the Battles of Wakefield and a short Account of this ancient and important Town' by George H. Crowther

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 Wakefield and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Memorial Inscriptions

• Photographs of gravestones at Thornes St James' Church
• Photographs and transcriptions of the memorial benches in Thornes Park Wakefield
• Transcription and photograph of the Central Wakefield War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of the Central Wakefield Memorial Garden
• Transcription and photograph of the Wakefield Clayton Hosptial Memorial Plaque
• Transcription and photograph of the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of Wakefield St Austin's Roman Catholic Church War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of the West Riding Constabulary War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of the Thornes House School War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of Thornes St James' Church War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of the Horbury War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of the Horbury South African (Boer) War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of the Horbury Bridge War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of Outwood St Mary Magdalene Church War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of the Outwood Methodist Church War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of the Outwood Memorial Hall War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of the Stanley War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of Wrenthorpe St Paul's Church War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of the Wrenthorpe Colliery War Memorial
• Transcription and photograph of the Lofthouse Colliery Disaster 1973 Memorial
• A transcription of the War Memorial Plaque on the side of St. Anne's Church, Wrenthorpe.
• A transcription of the The War Memorial at Kirkhamgate.
• A transcription of the The War Memorial on the wall of St. Peter's Church, Stanley.
• A transcription of the The War Memorial at Wakefield.

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:
  • (SE301230) Beck Bottom
  • (SE358248) Bottom Boat
  • (SE314244) Carr Gate
  • (SE338213) Eastmoor
  • (SE303178) Horbury Junction
  • (SE286181) Horbury Bridge
  • (SE296228) Kirkhamgate
  • (SE345250) Lee Moor
  • (SE334245) Lofthouse Gate
  • (SE312197) Lupset
  • (SE330225) Newton Hill
  • (SE326237) Outwood
  • (SE320230) Snow Hill
  • (SE354230) Stanley Ferry
  • (SE347244) Stanley Lane Ends

Occupations

• Locations of former coal mines in the Wakefield area for 1896.
• Locations of former coal mines in the Wakefield area for 1945.

Poorhouses and Poor Law Etc

• Wakefield Poor Law Union Accounts 1886 transcribed by Carol Sklinar
• Overseers of the Poor in the Wakefield Union 1887 transcribed by Carol Sklinar

Societies

• This parish is covered by the following Society:
  • Wakefield and district FHS

Voting Records

• Transcription by Carol Sklinar of Wakefield Constituency Absent Voters List 1918 parts 1-3 (ongoing). Invaluable source for those ancestors who fought in World War 1.