New Wortley Yorkshire Family History Guide
New Wortley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1851 from Wortley (near Leeds) Ecclesiastical Parish, located on Spence Lane.
Alternative names: New Wortley; Leeds St John the Baptist, Spence Lane, Wellington Road
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1851
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1851
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WORTLEY (New), a chapelry in Wortley township, Leeds parish, W. R. Yorkshire; suburban to Leeds, and adjoining Holbeck. Post town, Leeds. Pop., 7,334.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop.
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: Hunslet
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Carlton Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Leeds Borough
- Province: York