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 

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

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].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Longwood – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Grave plans and burial registers, 1841-1976
Author:    Methodist Church (Longwood, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Longwood – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Longwood, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Longwood – Church records ( 4 )
Almondbury parish church baptisms [1783-1822]
Author:    Quarmby, Ernest; Ogden, Janet; Varley, Judith; Church of England. Parish Church of Almondbury (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Longwood, 1789-1846
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Longwood (Yorkshire)

Grave plans and burial registers, 1841-1976
Author:    Methodist Church (Longwood, Yorkshire)

Parish registers of Longwood, 1797-1951
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Longwood (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Longwood – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Longwood, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Longwood – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Survey and valuations, 1845, 1859
Author:    Longwood (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Longwood – Schools ( 1 )
School admission registers, 1905-1926
Author:    Longwood National School (Longwood, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Longwood – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Longwood township, 1781-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Survey and valuations, 1845, 1859
Author:    Longwood (Yorkshire)

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