Sandal Magna is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. West Bretton is a chapelry of Sandal Magna.
Other places in the parish include: Woodthorpe, Walton near Sandall Magna, Walton, Stand Bridge, Pledwick, Newmillerdam, Milthorpe, Hill Top, and Crigglestone.
Alternative names: Great Sandal, Sandall Magna
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1651
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SANDALL-MAGNA, a village, a township, and a parish, in Wakefield district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the river Calder, the Barnsley canal, and the North Midland railway, 2 miles S by E of Wakefield; contains many neat residences; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Wakefield.
The township contains also five hamlets and a part, and comprises 1, 529 acres. Real property, £7, 830; of which £800 are in the canal. Pop., 1, 590. Houses, 337.
The manor belongs to Sir L. M. S. Pilkington, Bart. S. Hall, S. House, S. Grange, Portobello, Castle-Grove, Brooke House, Woodlands, Manygates, Woolgreaves, and Pledwick House are chief residences. S. Castle was built in 1320, by the last Earl of Warren; went, at his death, to the Crown; was, for some time, the residence of John Baliol as vassal of Edward III.; passed to Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, who, in 1460, fell in the battle of Wakefield; became the residence of his son, the Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard III.; was dismantled, in 1646, by order of the parliament; and is now represented chiefly by some small fragments of grout-work, and some mounds of rubbish. Coal is worked at Standbridge.
The parish contains also the townships of Crigglestone, Walton, and part of West Bretton. Acres, 7, 273. Pop. in 1851, 4,036; in 1861, 4, 214. Houses, 904. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £157. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is cruciform, and has a tower. The p. curacy of Chapelthorpe is a separate benefice. There are a New Connexion Methodist chapel, an endowed school with £250 a year, alms-houses with £18, and other charities £280. The Wakefield cemetery also is here.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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England, Yorkshire, Sandall-Magna – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Sandal Magna, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Sandall-Magna – Census – 1841 – Indexes ( 1 )
Index to the 1841 census
Author: Payne, Lucy; Lumb, Carol; Smith, Joan P.; Wakefield and District Family History Society
England, Yorkshire, Sandall-Magna – Church records ( 11 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Chapelthorpe, 1863-1867
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Chapelthorpe (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Sandall-Magna, 1598-1863
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sandall-Magna (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Chapelthorpe (Yorkshire)
The Northern genealogist
Author: Gibbons, A.
Parish register transcripts, 1557-1784
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Silkstone (Yorkshire)
Parish register transcripts, 1598-1639
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sandall-Magna (Yorkshire)
Parish register transcripts, 1598-1832
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sandall-Magna (Yorkshire)
Parish registers for West Bretton, 1750-1829
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of West Bretton (Yorkshire)
The parish registers of Sandal Magna county of York (West Riding) : baptisms 1598-1812, marriages 1598-1832, burials 1598-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sandall-Magna (Yorkshire); Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Parish Register Section; Lonsdale, Tony
Record of members, 1843-1922
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sheffield Conference (Yorkshire)
Record of members, 1900-1901
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sandal District (Yorkshire)
St. Helen’s Parish Church, Sandal : parish register (indexed)
Author: Welch, Chris; Welch, Joan; Wakefield and District Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Sandall-Magna (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Sandall-Magna – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Sandal Magna, Yorkshire, England
Computer printout of West Bretton or Bretton Chapel, Yorks., Eng
England, Yorkshire, Sandall-Magna – History ( 1 )
Sandal Castle excavations, 1964-1973 : a detailed archaeological report
Author: Mayes, Philip; Butler, Lawrence; Johnson, Shirley
England, Yorkshire, Sandall-Magna – Schools ( 4 )
Admission registers, 1866-1928
Author: Sandall-Magna School (Yorkshire)
Admission registers, 1890-1925
Author: Sandall-Magna Board School (Sandall-Magna, Yorkshire)
Admission registers, 1901-1942
Author: Crigglestone Church of England School (Yorkshire)
Mixed admission registers, 1897-1932
Author: Crigglestone Council School (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Sandall-Magna – Taxation ( 6 )
Land tax assessments for Crigglestone township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Sandall-Magna township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Walton township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Warmfield-with-Heath township, 1782-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for West Bretton township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for West Bretton township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Wakefield
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Wakefield
- Hundred: Agbrigg
- Province: York