Headingley Yorkshire Family History Guide
Headingley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1717 from Leeds St Peter Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Leeds St Michael and All Angels, Potternewton, Potter Newton, Headingley Ward, Harehills, and Gipton.
Alternative names: Headingly cum Burley, Leeds St Michael, Headingley with Kirkstall, Headingly with Burley and Kirkstall, Headingly with Burley
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1722
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Seacroft
- Whitkirk
- Woodside
- Burley
- Adel
- Leeds All Saints
- Roundhay
- Meanwood
- Kirkstall
- Chapel Allerton
- Manston
- Burmantofts
- Woodhouse
- Leeds St Mary
- Buslingthorpe
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HEADINGLEY, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Leeds parish, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on the river Aire, and on the Leeds and Harrogate railway, 2 miles NW of Leeds; is a considerable place, with many handsome villas; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Leeds.
The township bears the name of Headingley-with-Burley; contains the villages of Burley and Kirkstall; and is divided into the chapelries of H., Far-H., Burley, and Kirkstall. Acres, 3, 058. Real property, £36, 012; of which £1, 800 are in iron works, and £155 in quarries. Pop., in 1851, 6, 105; in 1861, 9, 674. Houses, 2, 024. The increase of pop. was partly occasioned by the erection of residences for many of the merchants of Leeds.
The Botanical and Zoological gardens of Leeds are here; and there are a large bleaching establishment, several worsted mills, a flax mill, and a tannery. The ancient oak also is here which gives name to the wapentake of Skyrack, originally Scire oak.
The chapelry of Headingley is of prior date to the other three chapelries. Pop. in 1861, 3, 119.
The living is a p. curacy in the dio. of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Leeds. The church was rebuilt in 1837, at a cost of £3, 000.
An Independent chapel at H. Hill was built in 1867, at a cost of fully £6, 000. There are a Wesleyan chapel and 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: Hunslet
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Carlton Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Leeds Borough
- Province: York