Normanton, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  West Riding  Normanton

Parish History
NORMANTON (All Saints), a parish, in the Lower division of the wapentake of Agbrigg, W. riding of York; containing, with the townships of Altofts and Snydale, 1323 inhabitants, of whom 481 are in Normanton township, 5 miles (E. N. E.) from Wakefield. The parish comprises about 4000 acres; the soil is rich, and in good cultivation. The Midland railway is joined at Normanton by the Manchester and Leeds line; and a little beyond this place, the York and North-Midland railway diverges towards York. An excavation through a rocky soil was made here, to the extent of 500,000 cubic yards; the greater portion of the earth was used in forming the embankment at Altofts, where the railway is carried over the Calder by a viaduct. The village, since the completion of the railway, which has a station here, has become of considerable importance; and a spacious hotel has been erected at a vast expense, for the accommodation of the numerous passengers who arrive by the York, Sheffield, Manchester, and Leeds trains. The station comprises a depôt for merchandise,with every requisite for facilitating the traffic on the line. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £7; patrons and appropriators, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge: the great tithes of the parish have been commuted for £676,and the small for £139; the appropriate glebe consists of 2 acres, and the vicarial of 75. The church is a neat structure with a tower.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 421-423. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51182 Date accessed: 20 September 2011.

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Civil Registration
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Church records
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Probate records
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