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KIRKHEATON

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The objective of this web site is to bring together information relating to the parish of Kirkheaton and the people who lived there. The main reasons for wanting to do this are to collect, and transcribe records, from as many different sources as possible The main emphasis is on family, and local history Unless specified, all transcriptions and indexes have been made by me from primary source material including the enumerated census and parish registers. However, I recommend you also check the original or primary source yourself for verification purposes. In the same way, indexes should be regarded as finding aids only. This web site is very much in its infancy and will be added to over the coming months. The only way I can be contacted is through this guestbook; please ask if you have any questions, I will do my best help with
family history or local history.
Places in Kirkheaton:
Kirkheaton, Lepton, Dalton, Upper Whitley, Grange Moor, Upperheaton, Colne Bridge, Bradley Mills, Moldgreen, Waterloo, Rawthorp, Gawthorp, Lascelles Hall, Tandem, Houses Hill.

Whites Directory of Leeds and the West Riding 1870

KIRKHEATON PARISH
Comprises of the townships of Kirkheaton, Dalton, Lepton and Upper Whitley, extending from 2 to 7 miles East of Huddersfield and containing upwards of 12,000 inhabitants and 6,468 acres.
They are all in the upper division of Aggbrigg Wapentake and in Huddersfield Union, Dalton is in the Manor of Wakefield and the other three townships are in the Honour of Pontefract.

KIRKHEATON
A large village in a deep valley 2 miles North East of Huddersfield, has in its township 1609 acres and 3011 inhabitants.
The Church St John the Baptist is a large Structure, which was repaired and partly built in 1823 and 1826. In the Churchyard is an ancient Yew tree 20 feet and 9 inch circumference; the Rectory valued at £537 is in the patronage of trustees and in the incumbency of the Rev Christopher Alderson.
Part of this township is in the district of Christ Church Moldgreen. Chapel of Primitive Methodist at Houses Hill and a Mechanics Institution established in 1825.
Free School endowed with £22 – 10 s a year, and erected about 1617 was rebuilt on a large scale in 1846 with a house for the master, at cost of more than £1,000, and a new wing was added in 1858.
The poor land is 16 acres; the poor of Kirkheaton, Lepton, South Crosland and Mirfield have a yearly rent charge of £40 pounds left by
R. Beaumont Esq. in 1703.

UPPER WHITLEY
Township contains 1953 acres and 947 inhabitants, the village of Denby; on an eminence, 6 miles East of Huddersfield; and Denby Grange 5½ miles West South West of Wakefield.
Whitley Hall is 4½ East of Huddersfield and is the seat of Mr Edward Aldam Lealham Esq. J.P., and the Grange Hall that of Lewis Starkey Esq. J.P.

LEPTON
Township has 1651 acres and 3273 inhabitants, and extends from 1½ to 4 miles East of Huddersfield.
The Church St John erected in 1868 at a cost of £3500 is a neat fabric, with 450 sittings. The benefice is in the patronage of H.F. Beaumont Esq., M.P and incumbency of the Rev Walter Edward Hamilton Sotheby MA.
The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist have Chapels in the township, and national schools were erected in 1860

DALTON
Township includes 1255 acres and 4692 inhabitants and extends along the Calder to 1½-mile North East of Huddersfield.
The Swedenborgians have a Chapel at the Grove Place, which was built 1848 by the late Joseph Senior Esq., at a cost of £1000 on the site of a smaller one built by his father George Senior Esq., in 1818.
The independent Chapel was erected in 1858 and with it’s school cost about £3,700. There are some Mills in the township engaged in the woollen manufacture, and also in Silk spinning and there are a number of pretty villas and some fine mansions, occupied by the manufacturers and merchants of Huddersfield.