Felkirk, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Felkirk, a parish in the W.R. Yorkshire, on the Leeds and Rotherham railway, 1¼ mile NE of Royston and Notton railway station, and 5 miles NE by N of Barnsley. It contains the townships of Brierley, Shafton, South Hiendley, and Havercroft-with-Cold-Hiendley, and the hamlet of Grime-thorpe, the first of which has a post and money order office under Barnsley; telegraph office, Hemsworth. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, with Brierley, 2091. The place which gives name to the parish is only a single farmhouse. Building-stone is quarried. The living is a vicarage, united½with Brierley, in the diocese of York; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is ancient but good, and has an embattled tower; it was restored in 1876. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, an endowed school, and other charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Felkirk St. Peter | |
| Riding | West | |
| Wapentake | Staincross |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Felkirk from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Felkirk (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Felkirk are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: