Cross Stone, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Cross Stone is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1810 from Halifax St John the Baptist Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Stansfield and Stansfield Lower Third with Crosstone.
Alternative names:
- Crosstone
- Croston
- Halifax St Paul
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1678
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CROSSTONE, Cross-Stone, or Croston, a village, and a chapelry in Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village is in Stansfield township, on the west border of the county; stands near Eastwood r. station, and 8½ miles W of Halifax; and had anciently a stone cross.
The chapelry includes the village, and is more extensive than the township. Post town, Eastwood, under Todmorden. Rated property, £25, 527. Pop., 9, 567. The property is much subdivided.
The living is a p. curacy, united with the p. curacy of Lydgate, in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Halifax. The church is good; and there are three dissenting chapels.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CROSSTONE, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Halifax, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York, 11½ miles (W.) from Halifax; containing 11,685 inhabitants.
This place, which derives its name from an old cross, now fallen to decay, comprises the townships of Stansfield and Langfield, and is intersected by the Manchester and Leeds railway; the surface is mountainous, and the scenery romantic. The population is partly employed in the cotton and worsted manufactures.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Vicar of Halifax, with a net income of £150: the chapel, or district church, was rebuilt in the early English style in 1836, at a cost of £3000, defrayed by the Church Commissioners, and contains 1030 sittings, of which 430 are free, and 405 appropriated to different farms.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Todmorden
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Halifax
- Hundred: Morley
- Province: York