Hanging Heaton Yorkshire Family History Guide
Hanging Heaton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1826 from Dewsbury All Saints Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Dewsbury All Saints
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1825
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1826
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HANGING-HEATON, a hamlet and a chapelry in Soothill township, Dewsbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet lies near the Manchester and Leeds railway, 1½ mile N of Dewsbury; and has a post office under Dewsbury.
The chapelry was constituted in 1842. Pop. in 1851, 1,893; in 1861, 2, 219. Houses, 453. The pop. consists chiefly of small landowners under the trustees of the Savile estates, and of hand loom woollen manufacturers. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Dewsbury. There is a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Dewsbury
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Dewsbury
- Hundred: Agbrigg
- Province: York