Longwood Yorkshire Family History Guide
Longwood is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1799 from a chapelry in Huddersfield St Peter Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Sunnybanks, Sunny Bank, Snowy Lee, Royds Hall, Outlane, Out Lane, Milnes-bridge, Hirst, Dodlee, Dod Lee, Darklane, and Dark Lane.
Alternative names: Huddersfield St Mark
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1797
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LONGWOOD, a village and a township-chapelry in Huddersfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands adjacent to the Leeds and Manchester branch of the Northwestern railway, 2½ miles W of Huddersfield; and has a station on the railway, gas-works erected in 1860, and a local board of health established in 1861.
The chapelry contains also the hamlets of Darklane, Dodlee, Hirst, Outlane, Snowy-Lee, and Sunnybank, and parts of Milnes-bridge and Royds-Hall. Post town, Huddersfield. Acres, 910. Real property, £8,010; of which £110 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851,3,023; in 1861,3,402. Houses, 684. The property is much subdivided.
Cotton-spinning, cotton-doubling, cotton warp-making, and fancy woollen manufactures are carried on. Two large reservoirs of the Huddersfield waterworks are here.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Huddersfield. The church is a plain building, neither good nor large, with a bell-turret.
There are two Wesleyan chapels, a New Connexion Methodist chapel, a mechanics’ institute, free schools, national schools, and charities £98.
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