Lockwood, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Lockwood, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the river Holme, and to the Huddersfield and Holmfirth railway, 1 mile SSW of Huddersfield; is large and well-built, and has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Huddersfield. The township comprises 994 acres, part of which (without population) is in the administrative county of the West Riding; population, 12,075, all of which is contained in the county borough of Huddersfield. The population has greatly increased of late years. The ecclesiastical parish includes part of Almondbury township, contains the villages of Lockwood, Salford, Taylor Hill, and Crossland Moor, and was constituted in 1843. Population, 6642. The manufacture of woollen cloths, both plain and fancy, is carried on. There is an extensive iron and brass foundry, and also a very large brewery. The Huddersfield and M.S. & L. railways traverse the parish on a viaduct, across the valley of the Holme, 350 feet long, with 36 arches, and with a maximum height of 136 feet. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £350 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury. The church is in the Decorated English style, and has a fine E window and a bell-turret, and was restored in 1887. Newsome and Eash-cliffe were formed into separate ecclesiastical parishes in 1873 and 1865. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and United Free Methodist chapels, and public baths. The Beaumont Park, the gift of H. F. Beaumont, Esq., to the corporation of Huddersfield, laid out as pleasure grounds, was opened by the Duke and Duchess of Albany in 1883. There is a mechanics' institute, with library and reading-room, at Lockwood. A family who figure in the ballad, the " History of Sir J. Ealand," took name from Lockwood.
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 | Almondbury | |
Poor Law union | Huddersfield | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Agbrigg |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Lockwood 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 Lockwood 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: