Chapelthorpe, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Chapelthorpe is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1735 from Sandal Magna Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Sandal Magna St James, Chapel-Thorpe
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- Parish registers: 1829
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1830
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHAPELTHORPE, a chapelry in Great Sandall parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the North Midland railway, 3½ miles S of Wakefield.
It was constituted in 1843; and it has a post office under Wakefield. Pop., 2,021. Houses, 431. Many of the inhabitants are coal miners.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £189. Patron, the Vicar of Great Sandall.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CHAPEL-THORPE, a district chapelry, in the parish of Great Sandall, union of Wakefield, Lower division of the wapentake of Agbrigg, W. riding of York, 3 miles (S. by W.) from Wakefield; containing 1479 inhabitants.
It comprises the township of Crigglestone, and is separated from Horbury by the river Calder; the number of acres is 3000, and the district is rich in coal and freestone.
The living is a perpetual curacy: net income, £200; patron, the Vicar of Great Sandall; impropriator, R. Allatt, Esq. The chapel, dedicated to St. James, is a neat plain edifice, built 80 years since, by parochial rate.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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- 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