Drighlington, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Drighlington is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1817 from a chapelry in Birstall Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Adwalton.
Alternative names: Birstall St Paul, Drighlington with Adwalton
Parish church: St Paul
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1816
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1816
Nonconformists include: Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DRIGHLINGTON, a township-chapelry and a sub-district in Birstall parish, Bradford district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The chapelry lies on the Gildersome branch of the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction railway, 5 miles SE by E of Bradford; includes a clothing village of its own name, and the hamlet of Adwalton; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Leeds.
Acres, 1, 130. Real property, £12, 730; of which £5, 673 are in mines. Pop., 4, 274. Houses, 835. The property is not much divided.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron, Bishop of Ripon. The church is tolerable; and there are chapels for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and New Connexion Methodists. There is also an endowed school, with £60 a year. Archbishop Margetson was a native, and founded the school.
The sub-district includes also the township of Tong. Acres, 3, 774. Pop., 7, 309. Houses, 1, 499.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Bradford
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: North Bierley
- Hundred: Morley
- Province: York