Linthwaite Yorkshire Family History Guide
Linthwaite is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1833 from a chapelry in Almondbury Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Upper Linthwaite, Spring Mill, Slades, New Road Side, Middle Linthwaite, Lower Linthwaite, Hazle-Grove, Clough, and Blackmoor Foot.
Alternative names: Almondbury Christ Church
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1828
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Particular Baptist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LINTHWAITE, a township and a chapelry in Almondbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire.
The township lies on the river. Colne and the Manchester canal, near Golcar r. station, 4 miles SW of Huddersfield; carries on largely the woollen manufacture; and has a post office under Huddersfield. Acres, 1,334. Pop. in 1851,3,802; in 1861, 4,300. Houses, 850. The property is much subdivided. Good building-stone is quarried.
The chapelry was constituted in 1842, and is less extensive than the township. Pop. in 1861,3,144. Houses, 623. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury. The church was built in 1828, at a cost of £3,000; and is a neat edifice with tower and spire.
There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Free Methodists, and national and Wesleyan schools.
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: Huddersfield
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Huddersfield
- Hundred: Agbrigg
- Province: York