Marsden Yorkshire Family History Guide
Marsden is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1742 from a chapelry in Huddersfield St Peter Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Marsden in Huddersfield and Marsden in Almondbury.
Alternative names: Huddersfield St Bartholomew
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1734
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1831
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Holme Bridge
- Meltham
- Upperthong
- Friarmere
- Slaithwaite
- Milnrow Lancashire
- Scammonden
- Ripponden
- Lockwood
- Saddleworth
- Dobcross
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MARSDEN, a village and a township-chapelry in Almondbury and Huddersfield parishes, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Colne, adjacent to the Manchester and Huddersfield canal and to the Manchester and Leeds railway, under the backbone of England, 4¾ miles E of the boundary with Lancashire, and 7¼ SW by S of Huddersfield.
It is a large place; and has a station on the railway, a post office under Huddersfield, and fairs on 25 April, 10 July, and 25 Sept. The chapelry comprises 5,016 acres in A. parish, and 2,050 in H. parish. Real property, £6,226; of which £319 are in quarries, and £150 in gas-works. Pop. of the A. portion in 1851,2,153; in 1861,2,027. Houses, 428. Pop. of the H. portion in 1851,512; in 1861,662. Houses, 138. The increase of pop. in this portion arose from the enlargement of a cotton mill, and from employment on the railway and in the woollen mills. The property is much subdivided.
The manor belongs to Sir Joseph Radcliffe, Bart. Great part of the land is uncultivated moor and mountain. A tunnel of the railway, no less than 3 miles 61 yards long, begins a little W of the village; and a tunnel of the canal adjoins the railway one. A cotton factory, a silk factory, several woollen mills, an extensive iron foundry, and a large corn mill are in operation.
The township adopted the local government act in 1860, and is now governed by a local board. A mechanics’ hall, connected with a mechanics’ institution dating from 1841, was erected in 1861, at a cost of £2,500; is in the Italian style; and has an apartment with capacity for 1,000 persons. Mr. W. Horsfall of Marsden, in consequence of having introduced improved machinery, was shot in 1812 by the Luddites.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £174. Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury. The old church is a plain, ancient, stone building; comprises aisles and chancel, with a belfry; and was reported in 1859 as bad. The new church was built in 1867, at a cost of £7,235; and is in the geometric middle pointed style.
There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, a national school, and a town school. The Independent chapel was rebuilt about 1860, and is in the pointed style. The national school was built in 1856, at a cost of £2,000.
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: Court of the Peculiar of the Manor of Marsden
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Huddersfield
- Hundred: Agbrigg
- Province: York