Horbury is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1717 from a chapelry in Wakefield All Saints Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Horbury Bridge.
Alternative names: Harbury
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1598
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Â Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HORBURY, a village, a parochial-chapelry, and a sub-district in Wakefield parish and district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands adjacent to the river Calder, and the Manchester and Leeds railway, 3 miles SW of Wakefield; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post office†under Wakefield.
The chapelry includes also part of Horbury-Bridge village, and comprises 1, 183 acres. Real property, £10, 969; of which £10 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 2, 803; in 1861, 3, 246. Houses, 711. The property is much divided.
The manor belongs to S. L. Fox, Esq.; and much of the land to D. Gaskell and J. F. Carr, Esqs.
There are woollen, worsted, flannel, and yarn manufactories, and scribbling and fulling mills.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £230. Patron, the Vicar of Wakefield. The church was rebuilt, in 1794, at a cost of £8, 000; is in the renaissance style; and consists of nave, chancel, and transept, with tower and spire.
There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Free Methodists; a large national school; and a female penitentiary, together with an hospital for incurables, established in 1858, conducted by Sisters of Mercy, and maintained in buildings erected in 1862-5.
The sub-district is conterminate with the chapelry.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Paver’s Marriage Licences
It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.
1630 Roger Radcliffe, Horbury, clerk, Dean. Doncaster and Pontefract, and Grace King, widow, Halifax—either place. (At Halifax, ii Jan., 1630-1.)
Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Horbury
England, Yorkshire, Horbury – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Parish chest materials, 1603-1970
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Horbury (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Horbury – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Horbury, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Horbury – Census – 1841 – Indexes ( 1 )
Index to the 1841 census
Author: Payne, Lucy; Lumb, Carol; Smith, Joan P.; Wakefield and District Family History Society
England, Yorkshire, Horbury – Church history ( 1 )
From beginnings unpromising : the story of the development of Methodism in Horbury
Author: Day, Peter Renton
England, Yorkshire, Horbury – Church records ( 8 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Horbury, 1600-1861
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Horbury (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Horbury, 1815
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Horbury (Yorkshire)
Church records, 1876-1940
Author: Westfield Chapel (Horbury, Yorkshire : Congregational)
Church records, 1877-1940
Author: Westfield Church (Horbury, Yorkshire : Congregational)
Horbury parish church, St Peter & St Leonard’s : baptisms, marriages & burials
Author: Whitaker, Joan M.; Wakefield and District Family History Society; Church of England. Chapelry of Horbury (Yorkshire)
Parish chest materials, 1603-1970
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Horbury (Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Horbury, 1598-1920
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Horbury (Yorkshire)
The registers of the chapel of Horbury in the parish of Wakefield in the county of York, 1598-1812
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Horbury (Yorkshire); Charlesworth, John
England, Yorkshire, Horbury – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Horbury, Yorkshire, England
St. Peter & St. Leonard’s Parish Church, Horbury
Author: Hopkinson, Maureen; Whitaker, Joan M.; Church of England. Chapelry of Horbury (Yorkshire); Wakefield and District Family History Society
England, Yorkshire, Horbury – Directories ( 2 )
Horbury, 1905
Author: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
Tradespeople of Horbury : directories 1822 to 1936
Author: Smith, Joan P.
England, Yorkshire, Horbury – History ( 1 )
Some Horbury yesterdays
Author: Woodall, R. D.
England, Yorkshire, Horbury – Maps ( 1 )
Horbury, 1905
Author: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
England, Yorkshire, Horbury – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest materials, 1603-1970
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Horbury (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Horbury – Schools ( 1 )
Girls’ admission registers, 1875-1900, 1911-1926
Author: Horbury National School (Horbury, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Horbury – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Horbury township, 1782-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Horbury Bridge
England, Yorkshire, Horbury-Bridge – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers for Horbury-Bridge, 1868-1954
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Horbury-Bridge (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Horbury-Bridge – Schools ( 1 )
Admission registers, 1897-1927
Author: Horbury Bridge Church of England School (Horbury Bridge, Yorkshire)
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Wakefield
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Wakefield
- Hundred: Agbrigg
- Province: York