Pudsey, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Pudsey is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1733 from a chapelry in Calverley Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Tyersall and Fullneck.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1775
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1780
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Christians, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Moravian/United Brethren, Particular Baptist, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
PUDSEY, a large village, a township, two chapelries, and a sub-district, in Calverley parish, Bradford district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on an eminence, ½ a mile S of Stanningley r. station, and 3½ E of Bradford; carries on extensive woollen manufacture; and has a post-office‡ under Leeds, a banking office, and several inns.
The township contains also Fullneck village, Tyersall hamlet, and part of Stanningley village. Acres, 2.342. Real property, £31, 361; of which £469 are inquarries, and £1, 112 in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 11, 603; in 1861, 12, 912. Houses, 2, 851. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to F. Stowe, Esq.
The chapelries are P., St. Lawrence and P., St. Paul; and the latter was constituted in 1846. The livings are p. curacies in the diocese of Ripon. Value of St. L., £300; of St. P., £150. Patron of St. L., the Vicar of Calverley; of St. P., alternately the Crown and the Bishop. . St. L.’s church was built in 1821, at a cost of £13, 362; is in the pointed style; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with pinnacled tower; and contains 2,000 sittings. St. P.’s church is a plain stone edifice.
There are 13 dissenting chapels, a Moravian theological seminary, a church institute, a mechanics’ institute, two national schools, a Moravian boarding school and day school, and some charities. The new Independent chapel was built in 1866, at a cost of about £2, 900; is a cruciform edifice, in the early French second pointed style; and has a tower and spire 100 feet high. The Moravian chapel stands at Fullneck, and is in the Italian style. The Unitarian chapel was built in 1861, and is in the early decorated pointed style.
The sub-district is conterminate with the township.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
PUDSEY, a township, in the parish of Calverley, union of Bradford, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York, 6 miles (W.) from Leeds; containing 10,002 inhabitants.
This place, in the Domesday survey Podechesaie, anciently belonged to the Calverley family, by whom the manor was sold in the reign of Edward II. to the Milners, of whom Charles Milner, Esq. is the present lord.
The township includes the hamlet of Tyersal, with a considerable portion of Stanningley, and comprises by measurement 2359 acres: the soil is tolerably fertile, and a large portion of it is in good cultivation; coal of inferior quality is found, and there are quarries of building-stone. The population is principally employed in the woollen manufacture, which is carried on to a very great extent; and within the township are not less than twelve joint-stock mills, which average about forty partners in each.
The village formerly consisted only of a few scattered hamlets, but has been so much increased and connected by additional buildings, that it now forms one of the most extensive clothing towns in the West riding. It is situated on the brow of a lofty acclivity, and the valley is watered by a winding tributary of the river Aire, on the banks of which are numerous scribbling and fulling mills, and establishments for dyeing wool. An act for lighting was passed in 1845.
The old chapel of Pudsey, built towards the close of the seventeenth century, is now disused; a church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, having been erected in 1823 by the Parliamentary Commissioners, at an expense of £13,362. It is a spacious and elegant structure in the later English style, with a lofty square embattled tower crowned by pinnacles, and, being on an eminence, forms a conspicuous and interesting feature in the landscape; the east window is of large dimensions, and enriched with stained glass; there are 2000 sittings, of which 660 are free.
The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £158, with a good residence; patron, the Vicar of Calverley.
A church district named St. Paul’s was endowed in 1846 by the Ecclesiastical Commission; the population of it is between two and three thousand, and the living is in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Ripon, alternately.
There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Kilhamites, Moravians, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans.
On taking down an old house at Fartown, in 1834, 363 silver coins of the reigns of Edward VI., Elizabeth, James, and Charles I., were found.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Bradford
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in Manors of Crossley, Bingley, Cottingley and Pudsey
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: North Bierley
- Hundred: Morley
- Province: York