Birkenshaw cum Hunsworth, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Birkenshaw cum Hunsworth is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1834 from Birstall Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Hunsworth and Birkenshaw Bottom.
Alternative names: Birkenshaw, Birstall St Paul
Parish church: St. Paul
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1831
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1831
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Wesleyan Methodist.
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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BIRKENSHAW, an ecclesiastical district, in the parish of Birstal, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York, 6½ miles (E.) from Leeds; containing 3000 inhabitants, of whom 1803 are in the hamlet.
This place, which is situated at the junction of the Leeds and Halifax, and Dewsbury and Bradford turnpike-roads, in the heart of a district abounding with coal, iron-ore, and building-stone, has been rapidly increasing in importance, and is now an extensive, populous, and thriving village. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the coal-mines, and in the extensive worsted factories of the Messrs. Ackroyd and others; in the combing of wool; and in the weaving of stuffs and woollen-cloths, the former for the Bradford, and the latter for the Leeds market.
The church, dedicated to St. Paul, was erected in 1829, at an expense of £2929, by the Parliamentary Commissioners, on a site given by the late Emanuel Emmet, Esq.: it is in the early English style, with a square embattled tower crowned with pinnacles and surmounted by a spire, and contains 702 sittings. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Vicar of Birstal, with a net income of £150, and a handsome residence built in 1835 at an expense, including the purchase of nearly five acres of land, of £2000.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Birkenshaw
Hunsworth
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: Morley
- Province: York