Liversedge Yorkshire Family History Guide
Liversedge is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1817 from a chapelry in Birstall Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Millbridge Heights, Millbridge, Little Town, High Town, and Heights.
Alternative names: Birstall Christ Church
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1816
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1816
Nonconformists include: Christians, Independent/Congregational, Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LIVERSEDGE, a township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict in Birstal parish, Dewsbury district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The township lies on the Cleckheaton branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, midway between Huddersfield and Bradford; has a station on the railway, 9 miles NNE of Huddersfield; and contains the hamlets of Robert-Town, Little-Town, Heights, HighTown, and Millbridge, each of the two latter of which has a post office under Normanton. Acres, 2,144. Real property, £23,376; of which £693 are in mines, £100 in quarries, and £600 in gas-works. Pop. in 1851,6,974; in 1861,8,176. Houses, 1,813. Many good residences are in various parts, particularly at Heights.
Manufactures of cloth, coverlets, carpets, cards, machines, wire, and chemicals are at Liversedge; manufactures of thread, cards, chemicals, and bricks are at Robert-Town; blanket manufactories, dye-works, scribbling-mills, and market-gardens, are at Little-Town; worsted and cotton mills and card manufacture are at High-Town; and Turkey carpet, rug, and woollen mills, an iron foundry, and card manufacture are at Millbridge.
The chapelry was constituted in 1860; and it includes only part of the township, the rest being included in Robert Town chapelry. Pop. in 1861,5,848. Houses, 1,299. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Birstal. The church was built in 1816, at a cost of £7,000.
There are chapels for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, New Connexion Methodists, and United Free Methodists, and two national schools.
The sub-district contains also the township of Heckmondwike. Acres, 2,807. Pop., 14,520. Houses, 3,130.
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: 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