Heptonstall, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Heptonstall, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Halifax civil parish, W.R. Yorkshire. The village stands on a bleak eminence, adjacent to the river Hebden, 1¼ mile NW of Hebden Bridge railway station, and 8 miles W by N of Halifax, and has a post office under Manchester; money order and telegraph office, Hebden Bridge. It has a cattle fair on Easter Tuesday. The ecclesiastical parish includes also the hamlets of Erringden, Langfield, Stanfield, and Wads-worth. Area of township, including the hamlet of Slack and part of Hebden Bridge, 5394; population, 4617; of the ecclesiastical parish, 5503. Lord Savile is lord of the manor. Much of the land is moor and common. There are cottoa and cotton-spinning manufactories. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; net value, £300 with residence. The church was built in 1854, near a previous church which became dilapidated and was dismantled; is in the Perpendicular style, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with square tower, and contains several stained glass windows. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and Free Methodist chapels, and several small charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Halifax | |
Poor Law union | Todmorden | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Morley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Heptonstall Parish Registers (Christenings, Marriages, Burials), 1593-1660 (£)
Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Heptonstall, St Thomas:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1813-1851 | 1813-1845 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Heptonstall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Heptonstall)
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 Heptonstall 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: