Heaton, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Heaton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Bradford parish, W.R. Yorkshire. In 1882, under the provisions of the Bradford Water and Improvement Act, Heaton was made part of the borough of Bradford. The village stands on an acclivity, near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and the Bradford branch of the North Midland railway, 2 miles NNW of Bradford. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Bradford. The ecclesiastical parish contains also the hamlets of Frizinghall, Heaton Royds, Heaton Shaye, Chellow, Chellow Heights, and Toller Lane. Area of township, including Frizinghall, 1323 acres; population, 4073; of the ecclesiastical parish, 6219. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ross. Heaton Royds is a large mansion standing in a park. There are extensive quarries and waterworks belonging to the Bradford corporation. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; gross value, £240 with residence. The church was built in 1864, is a handsome edifice, and stands on a conspicuous site. There are two Baptist and two Wesleyan chapels. The Yorkshire United Congregational College, formed in 1888, by amalgamation of the Airedale and Rotherham Colleges, exists for the purpose of training men for the ministry in Congregational churches.
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 | Shipley | |
Poor Law union | Bradford | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Morley |
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 Heaton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Heaton from the following:
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 Heaton 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: