Laughton en le Morthen, West Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Laughton-en-le-MortheD, a village, a township, and a parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The village stands on a rising ground, 4½ miles N hy E of Kiveton Park railway station, and 7 SE of Rotherham; suffered much in the Wars of the Roses, is irregularly built, and has a post office of the name of Langhton, under Rotherham; money order and telegraph office, Maltby. The township comprises 3878 acres; population, 660. The parish contains also the township of Throapham and the hamlets of Carr, Brookhouse, and SIade Hooton. Acreage, 6019; population of the civil parish, 752; of the ecclesiastical, 955. The manor belongs to the St Leger family. There is a Roman camp. The living is a vicarage, united with Thorpe, in the diocese of York; net value, £313 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The parish church is chiefly Early English, has a door of a previous edifice, either Saxon or Early Norman, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire 185 feet high. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school built in 1805, and a police station. The church of St John the Baptist, Throapham, is ancient.

Administration

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

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Church Records

Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Laughton en le Morthen:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Laughton en le Morthen from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Laughton-En-Le-Morthen (All Saints))

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 Laughton en le Morthen 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