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The Ancient Parish of SILKSTONE
[Transcribed information mainly 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.
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[Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]
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- Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
- The Church of All Saints and St. James the Greater, Silkstone (view 1).
- All Saints' Church, Silkstone (view 2).
- The former Ebenezer Chapel, Silkstone, now a nursery.
- The former Primitive Methodist Chapel, Silkstone.
- The Methodist Church, Silkstone Common.
- St. Mary's Church, 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.
- The Christadelphian Church, Blenheim Road, Barnsley.
- The Wesleyan Reform Church, Barnsley.
- The Church of St. John the Evangelist, Hoylandswaine.
- Internal view looking down the nave
- The font and cover
- The Methodist Church, Hoylandswaine, orignally a Beathel (sic) Chapel.
- The Methodist Church, Crane Moor, view 1.
- The Methodist Church, Crane Moor, view 2.
- The (former) Primitive Methodist Church, Crane Moor.
- Holy Trinity Church, Thurgoland.
- Internal view looking down the nave
- The East Window
- The font
- The Methodist Church, Thurgoland.
- The Methodist Church, Green Moor.
- The Church of St John the Baptist, Dodworth.
- Methodist Church, Dodworth, view 1.
- Methodist Church, Dodworth, view 2.
- The Wesleyan Reform Church, Dodworth.
- Emmanuel Methodist Church, Old Town.
- The Spiritualist Church, Barnsley.
- The 7th Day Adventist Church, Barnsley.
- The Salem Wesleyan Reform Church, Barnsley.
- The Church of St. Edward the Confessor, Kingstone.
- The former Primitive Methodist Church, Kingstone.
- The Baptist Church, Barnsley. Unfortunately the only website for this church appears to be on Facebook. I do not link to Facebook as it doesn't allow access to those with no account.
- A transcription of Barnsley Sheffield Road Baptist Church History
- A transcription of Barnsley Zion Baptist Church History
- A transcription of the Barnsley-Sheffield Road Congregational Church History
- A transcription of the Barnsley-Salem Chapel Congregational Church History
- A transcription of the Barnsley-Regent Street Congregational Church History
- Transcript of the entry for Silkstone in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Barnsley in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Cawthorne in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Cumberworth in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Stainborough in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- 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 Barnsley.
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of West Bretton.
- The List of Vicars in St. John's Church, Hoyland Swaine.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer 1750, Yorkshire extracts.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Silkstone to another place.
- A transcription of the Barnsley-Sheffield Road Congregational Church History
- A transcription of the Barnsley-Salem Chapel Congregational Church History
- A transcription of the Barnsley-Regent Street Congregational Church History
- 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.
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- 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.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SE290058 (Lat/Lon: 53.54804, -1.563796), Silkstone which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- The World War I Roll of Honour in Holy Trinity Church, Thurgoland.
- The World War II Roll of Honour in Holy Trinity Church, Thurgoland.
- The World War I Memorial Plaque in Holy Trinity Church, Thurgoland.
- The World War II Memorial Plaque in Holy Trinity Church, Thurgoland.
- The World Wars I and II memorial at Silkstone
- The World War I and II memorial at Dodworth.
- 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
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.