Darnall, West Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Darnall, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Sheffield parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire, on the M.S. & L.R., 3 miles E of Sheffield. There is a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sheffield. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1839. Population, 8099. With Attercliffe it forms a township and joint parish. There are extensive railway waggon works and large collieries in the neighbourhood. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £300 with residence. The church is modern, and accommodates 1000 people. There are also five dissenting chapels, almshouses, and a cemetery.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Holy Trinity, Darnall:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Darnall from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Darnall)

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 Darnall 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:

• Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
• Leeds Mercury
• Yorkshire Evening Post
• Huddersfield Chronicle
• Leeds Intelligencer
• Bradford Observer
• Bradford Daily Telegraph