Woodside Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Woodside is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1846 from Horsforth Ecclesiastical Parish, Headingley Ecclesiastical Parish, Kirkstall Ecclesiastical Parish, and Adel Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Leeds St James

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1847
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WOODSIDE, a chapelry, chiefly in Guiseley parish, but partly also in Leeds and Addle parishes, W. R. Yorkshire; near Horsforth r. station, and 5 miles NW by W of Leeds.

It was constituted in 1845; and its Post town is Horsforth, under Leeds. Pop. in 1861, 2,815. Houses, 568.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is in the decorated English style.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Woodside – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. James Church, Woodside, Horsforth : monumental inscriptions, 1849-1996
Author:    Wolstenhulme, Les; Clayton, Brian

England, Yorkshire, Woodside – Church history ( 1 )
The building of a Horsforth community : 150 years of Methodism in Woodside, 1839-1989
Author:    Townsley, Christopher

England, Yorkshire, Woodside – Church records ( 2 )
Horsforth St. James, Woodside burials index, 1848-1926
Author:    Cockroft, Alan; Walker, Mike

Horsforth St. James, Woodside marriages index, 1848-1904
Author:    Cockroft, Alan; Walker, Mike; Church of England. Chapelry of Woodside (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Woodside – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Horsforth, St. James, Woodside : baptisms 1847-1945

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Hunslet; Otley
  • 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; Skyrack
  • Province:    York