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.

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

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Drighlington – Cemeteries ( 8 )
Copies of inscriptions on headstones in cemeteries of Dewsbury and Drighlington, Yorkshire, England

Inscriptions from headstones at Congregational Chapel Graveyard, Drighlington, Yorkshire, England
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. British Mission

Monumental inscriptions in Yorkshire
Author:    Gardner, David Ensign, 1915-2007

Monumental inscriptions of Drightlington

Monumental inscriptions of Drightlington Cemetery

Monumental inscriptions of Drightlington, Congregational Church

Monumental inscriptions, Drighlington, York, England, 1834-1918

Monumental inscriptions, Drighlington, Yorkshire, England
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. British Mission

England, Yorkshire, Drighlington – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Drighlington, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Drighlington – Church records ( 6 )
Baptism register, 1837-1952
Author:    Trinity Chapel (Drighlington, Yorkshire : Wesleyan Methodist)

Bishop’s transcripts for Birstall, 1598-1878
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Birstall (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Drighlington, 1816-1878
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Drighlington (Yorkshire)

Drighlington St. Paul’s Church, baptism indexes, 1816-1934
Author:    Morley and District Family History Group; Church of England. St. Paul’s Church (Drighlington, Yorkshire)

Drighlington St. Paul’s Church, burial index
Author:    Morley and District Family History Group; Church of England. St. Paul’s Church (Drighlington, Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Drighlington, 1816-1934
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Drighlington (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Drighlington – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Drighlington, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Drighlington – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Drighlington township, 1781-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

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