Meltham Mills Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Meltham Mills is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1845 from Almondbury Ancient Parish and Honley with Brockholes Ecclesiastical Parish.

Alternative names: Almondbury St James

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1838
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: 

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MELTHAM-MILLS, a village and a chapelry in Almondbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands ¾ of a mile E of Meltham, and 3 WSW of Berry-Brow r. station.

The chapelry comprises parts of the townships of Meltham and Honley, and was made parochial in 1866. Rated property, £1,700. Pop., 1,196. Houses, 236. The property is divided among a few. There are extensive cotton mills and a large silk mill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron,B rook, Esq. The church was built in 1845; is a handsome cruciform edifice, in the pointed style; and has a tower and spire. There are a national school and an infant school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Meltham-Mills – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers for Meltham-Mills, 1838-1951
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Meltham-Mills (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