Chapel Allerton, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Chapel Allerton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1719 from a chapelry in Leeds St Peter Ancient Parish; located on Wood Lane.
Other places in the parish include: Moor Allerton, Chapel Allerton with Moor Allerton, Meanwood and Allerton Gledhew, Allerton-Gledhow, and Allerton Gledhew.
Alternative names: Leeds St Matthew, Wood Lane
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1789
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CHAPEL-ALLERTON, or Chapeltown, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Peter, liberty of Leeds, W. riding of York, 2 miles (N. by E.) from Leeds, on the road to Harrogate; comprehending the villages of Chapeltown, Meanwood, Gledhow, and Moor-Allerton; and containing 2580 inhabitants.
It abounds with picturesque scenery, and is noted for the salubrity of its air. The lands, which comprise by admeasurement 2763 acres, are well cultivated; and from the gentle undulation of the surface, embellished with villas and plantations, the district has a strikingly beautiful aspect. Stone of good quality abounds, and the quarries have afforded materials for the erection of the church, and several of the principal residences. The great tithes have been commuted for £260, and the small for £28.
The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £361; patron, the Vicar of Leeds. The church, which is in the Grecian style, was enlarged and repaired in 1840, at a cost of £1200, raised by subscription.
There is a place of worship for a congregation of Wesleyans; and at Meanwood is a school where divine service is performed by license from the bishop.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Hunslet
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Carlton Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Leeds Borough
- Province: York