Batley Carr Yorkshire Family History Guide
Batley Carr is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1841 from Dewsbury All Saints Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Dewsbury Holy Trinity
Riding: West Riding
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1841
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1842
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Dewsbury Moor St John
- Batley
- Dewsbury All Saints
- Dewsbury West Town St Matthew
- Hanging Heaton
- Earls Heaton
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BATLEY-CARR, a hamlet and a chapelry in Batley and Dewsbury parishes, W. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet stands ¾ of a mile S of Batley, and has a post office under Dewsbury. The chapelry was constituted in 1842. Rated property, £6,505. Pop., 3,859. Houses, 796. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Dewsbury. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895
Batley-Carr, an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1842 out of that of Dewsbury, W.R. Yorkshire. It stands f of a mile N of Dewsbury, with a station on the G.N.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) tinder Dewsbury. Population, 4191. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £320. Patron, the Vicar of Dewsbury. The church is good. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Dewsbury
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Dewsbury
- Hundred: Agbrigg
- Province: York