Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  West Riding  Mytholmroyd

Parish History
MYTHOLMROYD, an ecclesiastical parish, in the parish of Halifax, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York, 6 miles (W.) from Halifax; containing 3377 inhabitants. This parish was constituted in March,1846, under the provisions of the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37. Its extent is about four square miles; it is of very hilly surface, with well-wooded valleys, and altogether of romantic aspect. The river Calder, the road from Manchester to Leeds, and the Manchester and Leeds railway, run through the middle of the parish; and the Calder and Hebble canal also passes through it. There are some quarries of hard gritstone in operation. The village, which lies in the vale of the Calder, extends into several townships, and, with the neighbourhood, contains many factories for spinning cotton and worsted yarn, and for the manufacture of calicoes and fustians. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Crown and the Bishop of Ripon, alternately; income, £150. The church, the erection of which was commenced in the summer of 1846, cost, with the purchase of the site, about £2400. The Baptists and Methodists have each a place of worship. Aschool-house was built in 1841, by W. Sutcliffe, Esq.,of Bath, at an expense of £450; it is a neat building, in the later English style.

From:Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 362-363. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51165 Date accessed: 15 September 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
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