Holmfirth is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1726 from Kirkburton Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Scholes, Lydgate, Hepworth, Fulstone, Cartworth, and Wooldale.
Alternative names: Kirkburton Holy Trinity
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1736
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HOLMFIRTH, a town, a parochial chapelry, and a sub-district, in Huddersfield district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The town stands at the confluence of the rivers Holme and Rippleden, and at the terminus of a branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 6 miles S of Huddersfield; and comprises part of Upperthong township in Almondbury parish, and parts of Cartworth and Wooldale townships in Kirk-Burton parish.
It occupies romantic ground, partly in two deep valleys, partly on the acclivities of three great hills; is irregularly built, with little regard to street arrangement; and presents, at first sight, an extraordinary appearance; yet contains many genteel private residences, some good shops, and several good public buildings. It has a post office, under Huddersfield, a railway station, with telegraph, a banking office, three chief inns, a townhall, a lock up, two churches, several dissenting chapels, a mechanics’ institution, a national school, and five alms-houses.
It is a seat of petty sessions and county courts; has cattle fairs on the last Saturday of March and the Saturday after 27 Oct.; and carries on extensive woollen manufacture in many large mills.
The townhall was built in 1842, at a cost of upwards of £3, 000; and is a spacious edifice.
Holy Trinity church belongs to Holmfirth chapelry; is an ancient structure, of several dates and architectural characters; and has two aisles, a chancel, and an embattled tower. St. John’s church belongs to Upperthong chapelry.
The five alms houses were erected in result of liberality toward the sufferers by the bursting of the Bilberry reservoir, noticed in our article on Holme-Bridge. Pop. of the town, in 1861, 2,466. Houses, 499. Pop. of the Upperthong portion, 1,281; of the Wooldale portion, 850.
The chapelry is all in Kirk-Burton parish, in the townships of Cartworth, Wooldale, and Hepworth; and was constituted in 1858. Pop. in 1861, 5, 447. Houses, 1, 124. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Kirk-Burton.
The sub-district contains the townships of Upperthong, Anstonley, and Holme, and parts of Cartworth and Wooldale. Pop., 10, 845. Houses, 2, 171.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Yorkshire, Holmfirth – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Church records, 1778-1940
Author: Lane Chapel (Holmfirth, Yorkshire : Congregational)
Disused burial grounds (amendment) act 1981, Methodist Burial Ground, New Road, Holmfirth : removal of human remains
Author: Methodist Church. Holmfirth Circuit (Yorkshire)
Gravestones at Lydgate Chapel, New Mill, Holmfirth, Huddersfield W. R. Yorks, pre 1850
England, Yorkshire, Holmfirth – Census ( 2 )
Booth surnames extracted from Holmfirth, Yorkshire and surrounding area churches, 1541-1942 : including censuses of 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881
Sanderson surnames extracted from Holmfirth, Yorkshire area churches, ca. 1550-1900 : including census records, 1841-1881
England, Yorkshire, Holmfirth – Church history ( 1 )
History of Methodism in Huddersfield, Holmfirth and Denby Dale
Author: Mallinson, Joel, fl. 1898
England, Yorkshire, Holmfirth – Church records ( 11 )
Almondbury parish church baptisms [1783-1822]
Author: Quarmby, Ernest; Ogden, Janet; Varley, Judith; Church of England. Parish Church of Almondbury (Yorkshire)
Births and baptisms of Holmfirth, Independent Church, 1779-1837
Author: The Lane Chapel (Holmfirth, Yorkshire : Independent)
Births, baptisms and burials of Holmfirth, Wesleyan Church, 1792-1837
Author: Wesleyan Church (Holmfirth, England)
Bishop’s transcripts for Almondbury and its’ chapelries, 1632-1890
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Almondbury (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Honley (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Marsden (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Slaithwaite (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Meltham (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Holmfirth, 1813-1865
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Holmfirth (Yorkshire)
Booth surnames extracted from Holmfirth, Yorkshire and surrounding area churches, 1541-1942 : including censuses of 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881
Church records, 1778-1940
Author: Lane Chapel (Holmfirth, Yorkshire : Congregational)
Overseers of the poor payments, including Wooldale, 1803-1804, 1836-1837; and baptisms, 1810-1829
Author: Holmfirth (Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Holy Trinity Church, Holmfirth, 1736-1921
Author: Church of England. Holy Trinity Church (Holmfirth, Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Kirkburton, 1540-1894
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkburton (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Holmfirth (Yorkshire)
Sanderson surnames extracted from Holmfirth, Yorkshire area churches, ca. 1550-1900 : including census records, 1841-1881
England, Yorkshire, Holmfirth – Church records – Indexes ( 6 )
Computer printout of Holmfirth, Lane Independent, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Holmfirth, Wesleyan, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Holmfirth, Yorks., Eng
Digest of marriages, Society of Friends (Quakers), Pontefract monthly meeting : incl. Holmfirth, Dewsbury, Wakefield, Barnsley & Penistone
Author: Levon, Shirley; Reynolds, Jane; Smith, Joan P.; Wakefield and District Family History Society; Society of Friends. Pontefract Monthly Meeting (Yorkshire)
Parish register printouts of Holmfirth, Yorkshire, England (Independent, Lane Chapel) ; christenings, 1785-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Holmfirth, Yorkshire, England (Wesleyan Methodist Church) ; christenings, 1792-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Yorkshire, Holmfirth – Description and travel – Guidebooks ( 1 )
Official guide and industrial review
England, Yorkshire, Holmfirth – Names, Geographical ( 1 )
Holmfirth, place-names and settlement
Author: Redmonds, George, 1935-
England, Yorkshire, Holmfirth – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 2 )
Overseers of the poor payments, including Wooldale, 1803-1804, 1836-1837; and baptisms, 1810-1829
Author: Holmfirth (Yorkshire)
Valuation rates, 1849
Author: Holmfirth (Yorkshire)
Historical Directories
Directory of Halifax, Huddersfield, Holmfirth, and Adjacent Villages 1850. Publisher: Bradford: Printed by Daniel Burton 16, Ivegate. Date of publication: 1850 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Huddersfield
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Huddersfield
- Hundred: Agbrigg
- Province: York
