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The Ancient Parish of WOODKIRK
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"WOODKIRK, (or Westerton), now known as West Ardsley, a parish in the Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield, 4½ miles NW. of Wakefield, 3 from Dewsbury, 9¾ from Bradford. The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, p.r. £150. Patron, the Earl of Cardigan. Pop. 1,515.""DUNNINGLEY, 2 or 3 farm-houses in the township of West Ardsley and parish of Woodkirk, liberty of Wakefield, 6 miles NW. of Wakefield and Dewsbury."
"LEE FAIR GREEN, (Upper and Lower), in the township of West Ardsley, and parish of Woodkirk, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 3 miles from Dewsbury, 6 from Leeds. No Market. Fairs, August 24, and September 17, for horses, horned cattle, &c. These fairs are held on a Common adjoining. Upper Lee Fair Green is now simply Upper Green (2008)."
"TINGLEY, a hamlet in the township of West Ardsley, and parish of Woodkirk; (Tingley House, the residence of the Rev. W. Wood) 4½ miles from Wakefield, 5 from Leeds."
"WESTERTON HALL, cotts, in the township of West Ardsley and parish of Woodkirk; 4 miles NW. of Wakefield."
[Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]
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- Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Woodkirk. (The Church's website is here.)
- Tingley Methodist Church, Tingley.
- The Methodist Church, West Ardsley.
- The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Nativity, West Ardsley.
- A transcription of the Woodchurch Or Topcliffe Congregational Church History
- Transcript of the entry for Woodkirk in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The Morley & District FHG publish the following typed indexes:
- Baptisms 1743-1786
- Marriages 1650-1742
- Marriages 1743-1837
- Burials 1600-1917
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Woodkirk.
- 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 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 Woodkirk to another place.
- A transcription of the Woodchurch Or Topcliffe 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 SE288259 (Lat/Lon: 53.728708, -1.564961), Woodkirk 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:
- (SE279245) Beggarington Hill
- (SE265268) Birks
- (SE283243) Haigh Moor (formerly Common Side)
- (SE279254) Upper Green
- This parish is covered by the following Society: