Mirfield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Ravensthorpe and Hopton.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Mirfield
- Parish registers: 1559
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Hopton
- Parish registers: 1846
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Moravian/United Brethren, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Swedenborgian/New Jerusalem/New Church, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MIRFIELD, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Dewsbury district, W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the river Calder, the Liverpool and Leeds canal, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire and the Northwestern railways, 2½ miles SW of Dewsbury.
It is partly situated on an eminence, commanding extensive views; consists largely of modern houses; carries on extensive manufacture of woollen cloths, cottons, carpets, and blankets; does considerable business also in malting. machine-making, boat-building, and in the working of corn-mills and fulling and scribbling mills; and has a post office under Normanton, a railway station with telegraph, several inns, gas-works, a church, six dissenting chapels, an endowed school with £56 a year, two boarding-schools, a Moravian seminary, and charities £6.
The church was rebuilt In 1826, and retains the tower of a previous edifice. The dissent chapels are for Independents, Moravians, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, New Connexion Methodists, and United Free Methodists.
The parish contains also the village of Hopton; comprises 3,390 acres; and, till 1261, was part of the parish of Dewsbury-Real property, £25,730; of which £897 are in mines, £39 in quarries, and £786 in the canal. Pop. in 1851,6,966; in 1861,9, 263. Houses, 1,968. The increase of pop. arose mainly from the establishment of several new woollen mills. The landed property is divided chiefly among six. The manor belongs to the trustees of the Savile estates. There are several collieries.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £242. Patron, J. Ingham, Esq. The p. curacies of Hopton and Battyeford are separate benefices, with separate churches. Another church, called St. Saviours, was built in 1865, at a cost of £1,927; is in the early English style; and contains 500 sittings, all free. An Independent chapel and a national school are in Hopton and Battyeford. The sub-district is conterminate with the parish.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
The Parish Registers of Mirfield 1559 to 1776
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Yorkshire, Mirfield – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Banns, 1842-1899; monumental inscriptions, 1633-1884; internment books, 1861-1915
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Mirfield (Yorkshire)
Monumental inscriptions in Mirfield, Yorkshire
Monumental inscriptions, etc., from several Yorkshire churches..
England, Yorkshire, Mirfield – Census – 1841 – Indexes ( 2 )
Census returns for Mirfield, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
Mirfield 1841 census returns
Author: Sykes, David Allen
England, Yorkshire, Mirfield – Church history ( 2 )
Historical and biographical notices
Author: Waddington, George G.
Two hundred years of Christian witness at Gomersal, Mirfield and at Wyke, 1755 to 1955
England, Yorkshire, Mirfield – Church records ( 16 )
Banns, 1842-1899; monumental inscriptions, 1633-1884; internment books, 1861-1915
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Mirfield (Yorkshire)
Births and baptisms of Mirfield, Wesleyan Church, 1801-1837
Author: Wesleyan Church. The Knowl Chapel (Mirfield, England)
Births and burials of Mirfield, Baptist Church, 1825-1837
Author: Baptist Church (Mirfield, Yorkshire)
Births, baptisms and burials of Mirfield, Independent Church, 1733-1837
Author: Independent Church. Hopton Chapel (Mirfield)
Births, baptisms and burials of Mirfield, Moravian Church, 1794-1837
Author: Moravian Church. Wellhouse Chapel (Mirfield, England)
Bishop’s transcripts for Mirfield, 1600-1855
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Mirfield (Yorkshire)
Church records, 1743-1923
Author: Moravian Church (Mirfield, England)
Mirfield parish church baptisms
Author: Brooke, Ken; Church of England. Parish Church of Mirfield (Yorkshire); Whitwam, Stephen David
Parish chest materials, 1686-1861
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Mirfield (Yorkshire)
Parish records, 1559-1916
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Mirfield (Yorkshire)
Parish register transcripts, 1700-1776
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Mirfield (Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Hopton, 1846-1968
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hopton (Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Ravensthorpe, 1864-1910
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ravensthorpe (Yorkshire)
The parish registers of Mirfield, Co. York
Author: Mirfield (England). (Parish); Brigg, William, 1858-1921; Lumb, George Denison
Poor law records, 1718-1848
Author: Mirfield (Yorkshire)
The register of the parish of Mirfield
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Mirfield (Yorkshire); Brigg, William Anderton, 1921-; Lumb, George Denison, 1858-1939
England, Yorkshire, Mirfield – Church records – Indexes ( 8 )
Computer printout of Mirfield, Hopton Independent, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Mirfield, Particular Baptist, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Mirfield, The Knowl Chapel Wesleyan, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Mirfield, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Mirfiled, Wellhouse Chapel United Brethren or Moravion, Yorks., Eng
Parish register printouts of Mirfield, York, England (United Brethern or Moravian Church, Wellhouse Chapel) ; christenings, 1743-1875
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Mirfield, Yorkshire, England (Independent Church, Hopton Chapel) ; christenings, 1733-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Mirfield, Yorkshire, England (Wesleyan Methodist Church, The Knowl Chapel) ; christenings, 1801-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Yorkshire, Mirfield – History ( 1 )
An illustrated account of Spen Valley and Mirfield
England, Yorkshire, Mirfield – Military records ( 1 )
Militia lists for the townships of Crofton, 1824, and Mirfield, 1825
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Mirfield – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 3 )
Parish chest materials, 1686-1861
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Mirfield (Yorkshire)
Poor law records, 1718-1848
Author: Mirfield (Yorkshire)
Survey and valuation rates, 1848
Author: Hopton (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Mirfield – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Mirfield township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Poor law records, 1718-1848
Author: Mirfield (Yorkshire)
Yorkshire Historical Directories
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: Agbrigg
- Province: York
