Heckmondwike is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1837 from Birstall Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Birstall St James
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1831
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1831
Nonconformists include: Independent Methodist, Independent/Congregational, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HECKMONDWIKE, a town and a township-chapelry in Birstal parish, W. R. Yorkshire.
The town stands on an affluent of the river Calder, and on the Milfield and Bradford branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 2½ miles NW of Dewsbury.
It is a chief seat of the blanket trade, well built, and under a board of Health; and has a post office under Normanton, a railway station with telegraph, a banking office, two chief inns, a blanket hall, a freemasons’ hall, a church, two Independent chapels, a Wesleyan chapel, a Free Methodist chapel, and a national school.
The church was built in 1831; is in the pointed style; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire. The Independent chapels are handsome edifices of 1854 and 1860, built at costs of upwards of £3,000 and £2,000. Blanket markets are held, in the blanket hall, on every Monday and Thursday; and cattle fairs are held on the first Monday of May and the first Monday of Nov.
The blanket trade is extensive; and sent supplies to both the British army and the French army during the Crimean war. There are factories also for carpets, rugs, pilots, and other fabrics; and coal mining is carried on in the neighbourhood.
The town comprises all Heckmondwike township and part of Liversedge. Pop. in 1861, 8, 680. Houses, 1,830.
The township or chapelry comprises 663 acres. Real property, £17, 153; of which £1, 857 are in mines, and £12 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 4, 540; in 1861, 6, 344. Houses, 1, 317. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of the blanket and the carpet manufactures.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Birstall.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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England, Yorkshire, Heckmondwike – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions of Independent Church, Westfield (near Heckmondwike)
Register of burials, Heckmondwicke Cemeterty, Yorkshire, 1860-1930
Author: Heckmondwicke Cemetery (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Heckmondwike – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Heckmondwike, 1851-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Heckmondwike – Census – 1841 – Indexes ( 1 )
Heckmondwike 1841 census returns
Author: Sykes, David Allen
England, Yorkshire, Heckmondwike – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Kirklees census returns index : Heckmondwike, 1851
Author: Bruce, Stephen F.; Gregory, Philip; Whitwam, Stephen David
England, Yorkshire, Heckmondwike – Church history ( 1 )
Tercentenary, Upper Independent Congregational Church, 1674 : Upper United Reformed Church, 1974
England, Yorkshire, Heckmondwike – Church records ( 10 )
Baptism registers, 1861-1913
Author: Wesleyan Methodist Church (Heckmondwike, Yorkshire)
Baptism registers, 1895-1945
Author: Batley Road Chapel (Heckmondwike, Yorkshire : Primitive)
Baptisms, 1838-1978 and membership registers, 1857-1900
Author: Westgate Chapel (Heckmondwike, Yorkshire : United Methodist Free)
Births, baptisms and burials for Old Chapel in Heckmondwike, 1786-1837
Author: Old Chapel (Heckmondwike, Yorkshire : Independent)
Bishop’s transcripts for Birstall, 1598-1878
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Birstall (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Heckmondwike, 1831-1877
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Heckmondwike (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Liversedge, 1816-1878
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Liversedge (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Heckmondwike (Yorkshire)
Church records, 1787-1922
Author: Westgate Chapel (Heckmondwike, Yorkshire : Congregational)
Church records, 1873-1959
Author: Moravian Church (Heckmondwike)
Church register, 1834-1855
Author: Westgate Congregational Church (Heckmondwike, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Heckmondwike – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Heckmondwike, Old Chapel Independent, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Heckmondwike, Yorks., Eng
Parish register printouts of Heckmonwike, York, England (Independent, Old Chapel) ; christenings, 1786-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Yorkshire, Heckmondwike – History ( 4 )
An illustrated account of Spen Valley and Mirfield
The Spen Valley : a local history
Author: Thompson, Thomas William
Spen Valley : past and present
Author: Peel, Frank
Spen Valley, past and present
Author: Peel, Frank
England, Yorkshire, Heckmondwike – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor rate assessments, 1840
Author: Heckmondwike (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Heckmondwike – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Heckmondwike township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Poor rate assessments, 1840
Author: Heckmondwike (Yorkshire)
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: Morley
- Province: York