Stanley Yorkshire Family History Guide
Stanley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1826 from Wakefield All Saints Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Lofthouse Gate, Lingwell Gate, Late Lock, Lake Lock, Stanley with Wrenthorpe, Stanley Ferry, Potovens, Newton, and Moorhouse.
Alternative names: Wakefield St Peter
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1824
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1824
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Wakefield Holy Trinity
- Normanton
- Newland with Woodhouse Moor
- Lofthouse
- Wakefield St Mary
- Alverthorpe
- Methley
- Ardsley East
- Wakefield St John
- Wakefield St Andrew
- Warmfield
- Rothwell
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STANLEY, a village, a chapelry, a township, and a sub-district, in Wakefield parish and district, W. R Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Calder, 2 miles SE of Outwood r. station, and 2 NNE of Wakefield; is a scattered place, really forming two villages; and has a post-office under Wakefield.
The chapelry was constituted in 1830. Pop. in 1861, 2,924. Houses, 440. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £230. Patron, the Vicar of Wakefield.-The township includes the NE suburbs of Wakefield, and 7 hamlets; contains Wakefield water-works, Wakefield workhouse, and the West Riding pauper lunatic asylum; bears the name of S.-with-Wrenthorpe; and comprises 4,345 acres. Real property, £26,272; of which £9,800 are in mines, and £20 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 7,257; in 1861, 8,237. Houses, 1,498. There are numerous good residences.
A Roman station, with a Roman mint, was on an eminence above Lake Lock. Pindars Field, where Robin Hood is said to have fought the Pindar of Wakefield, is near Fieldhead. A boat-repairing yard is on the Calder; and there are brick-fields and roperies. The pauper lunatic asylum was built at a cost of more than £100,000; and, at the census of 1861, had 1,041 inmates. Stanley church was built in 1824, at a cost of about £12,000; underwent repair in 1851, at a cost of £1,100; and is in the later English style.
The township contains also Outwood church, seven dissenting chapels, two national schools, and two alms houses. 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].
Parish Records
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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