Kippax Yorkshire Family History Guide
Kippax is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Ledstone, Great and Little Preston, Great Preston, Astley, Allerton Bywater, and Little Preston.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1539
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1631
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KIPPAX, a village, a township, a parish, and a subdistrict in Pontefract district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on an eminence, near the river Aire, 2½ miles NE by N of Methley r. station, and 6 NW of Pontefract; is supposed to have derived its name from a Saxon keep and a famous ash, jointly Keep-Ash, corrupted into Kippax; and has a post office under Leeds, and fairs on 5 May and 5 Nov.
The township comprises 1, 470 acres. Real property, £6, 538; of which £1, 371 are in mines, and £40 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 1, 325; in 1861, 1, 656. Houses, 368.
The parish contains also the township of Allerton-Bywater, and the t. of Great and Little Preston. Acres, 3, 344. Real property, £11, 809; of which £4, 371 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 2, 339; in 1861, 2, 901. Houses, 367. The property is not much divided.
The manor belongs to Mrs. Medhurst. Kippax Park is the seat of T. D. Bland, Esq. Kippax Hall is used as a boarding school.
Coal is largely worked; and malting, lime burning, and ship building are carried on.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £329. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly Norman; and consists of nave, chancel, and porch, with tower and spire.
There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a boys free school, and charities £28.
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 Robert Woodhall, Kippax, and Isabell Freeman, Saxton—either place.
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
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Pontefract
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Great Preston Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Skyrack
- Province: York