Battyeford Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Battyeford is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1841 from Mirfield Ancient Parish. 

Alternative names: Mirfield Christ Church

Riding: West Riding

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1840
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1849

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BATTYEFORD, a chapelry, with a village, in Mirfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 2 miles WSW of Dewsbury r. station.

It was constituted in 1841; and its Post Town is Dewsbury. Rated property, £8,000. Pop., 3,115. Houses, 704. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Mirfield. The church is good; and there is an Independent chapel.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Battyeford – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Mirfield, 1600-1855
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Mirfield (Yorkshire)

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