Ardsley West Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Ardsley West is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. 

Alternative names: West Ardsley, Woodkirk

Other places in the parish include: Topcliffe near Wakefield, Topcliffe, Tingley, Leefair, Haigh Moor, Westerton, Topcliffe and Dunningley, Tingley, Leefair, Haigh Moor, and Dunningley. 

Riding: West Riding

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1652
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ARDSLEY (West), or Woodkirk, a parish in Wake field district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Wakefield railway, at Ardsley station, 5 miles NW of Wakefield.

It includes six hamlets, and has a post office, of the name of West Ardsley, under Wakefield. Acres, 2,250. Real property, £5,139. Pop., 1,646. Houses, 335. Coal is worked, and bricks are made.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value,. £265. Patron, the Earl of Cardigan. The church was rebuilt in 1831.

There are two Methodist chapels, a partially endowed school, and charities £10.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch


Use for:
England, Yorkshire, Ardsley (West)
England, Yorkshire, Woodkirk

England, Yorkshire, West Ardsley – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for West Ardsley, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, West Ardsley – Census – 1841 – Indexes ( 1 )
West Ardsley & East Ardsley census index, 1841
Author:    Morley and District Family History Group

England, Yorkshire, West Ardsley – Church records ( 7 )
Baptisms, 1873-1919
Author:    Rehoboth Chapel (West Ardsley, Yorkshire : United Methodist)

Baptisms, 1879-1912
Author:    Wesleyan Methodist Church. Morley Circuit (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Woodkirk, 1600-1887
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Woodkirk (Yorkshire); Church of England. Parish Church of East Ardsley (Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts for Woodkirk, 1652-1832
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Woodkirk (Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1655-1812
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of East Ardsley (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Woodkirk, 1600-1917
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Woodkirk (Yorkshire)

Woodkirk St. Mary’s Church, baptism index, 1743-1830
Author:    Morley and District Family History Group; Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Woodkirk, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, West Ardsley – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Woodkirk, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Woodkirk, Yorkshire, England ; christenings, 1652-1812
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Yorkshire, West Ardsley – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for West Ardsley township, 1781-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Wakefield
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery: Pontefract
  • Poor Law Union: Wakefield
  • Hundred: Agbrigg
  • Province: York