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The Ancient Parish of THORNHILL
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"THORNHILL, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 2 miles S. of Dewsbury, 6 from Wakefield, 9½ from Huddersfield, 35 from York. Pop. 1,932, the Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Michael, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, £40. Patron, the Hon. and Rev. J. Lumley Saville." (There is further information for Thornhill).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:
- St. Michael and all Angels' Church, Thornhill (view 1). (The Church's website is here.)
- St. Michael and all Angels' Church, Thornhill (view 2, a photo mosaic).
- The Methodist Church, Thornhill.
- St. Mary and St. Michael's Church, Whitley Lower (view 1). (The Church's website is here.)
- St. Mary's Church, Whitley Lower (view 2).
- The Wesleyan Chapel, Briestfield, now a private dwelling.
- St. James Church, Flockton.
- The Methodist Church, Flockton.
- The Zion United Reformed Church, Flockton - built 1802. (With short history).
- The Zion United Reformed Church, Flockton - view 2.
- The Church of the Holy Innocents, Savile Town.
- The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Thornhill Lees, view 1.
- The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Thornhill Lees, view 2.
- The Primitive Methodist Church, Thornhill Lees, now a Senior Citizens' Social Centre.
- The Primitive Methodist Chapel, Thornhill.
- The Church of the Good Shepherd, Thornhill Edge (Anglican).
- The Particular Baptist Church, Thornhill Edge.
- The former Methodist Church, Middlestown.
- The Methodist Church, Netherton. (The Church's website is here.)
- St. Andrew's Church, Netherton.
- The former Primitive Methodist Church, The Combs, now a private dwelling.
- The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Thornhill Lees.
- A transcription of the Flockton Congregational Church History
- A transcription of the Flockton-Zion Chapel Congregational Church History
- Transcript of the entry for Thornhill in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Flockton in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Thornhill.
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Flockton.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.
- 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.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Thornhill to another place.
- A transcription of the Flockton Congregational Church History
- A transcription of the Flockton-Zion Chapel Congregational Church History
- 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 SE252184 (Lat/Lon: 53.661485, -1.620131), Thornhill 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 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:
- (SE247190) Combs
- (SE249154) Flockton Green
- (SE235185) Fox Royd
- (SE271147) Midgley
- (SE244185) Overthorpe
- (SE245207) Saville Town
- (SE252180) Thornhill Edge
- This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.