Oxenhope Yorkshire Family History Guide
Oxenhope is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1845 from Haworth chapelry in Bradford St Peter Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Near Oxenhope and Far Oxenhope.
Alternative names: Bradford St Mary
Riding: West Riding
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1848
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Methodist, and Particular Baptist.
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Parsh History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
OXENHOPE, two hamlets and a chapelry in Bradford parish, W. R. Yorkshire.
The hamlets are called Far O. and Near O.; lie about 2 miles S of Haworth r.station, and 5 S of Keighley; and have a post-office, of the name of Oxenhope, under Keighley.
The chapelry extends westward to the boundary with Lancashire, and was constituted in 1845. Rated property, £5,356. Pop.in 1851, 2,997; in 1861, 2,880. Houses, 594. The property is much subdivided.
The manor belongs to Capt. Edwards. Mould Grange is the residence of J. Rushworth, Esq.; and Hey House, of Mr. J. O. Ackroyd. Worsted manufacture is carried on.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1849, at a cost of about £1,300; and is in the early Norman style, with a tower.
There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans and a free grammar-school.
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: Keighley
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Bradford
- Hundred: Morley
- Province: York