Ryhill, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Ryhill, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in the W.R. Yorkshire, 5 miles SE of Wakefield. There are a station on a branch of the M.S. & L.R., and a post and money order office under Wakefield; telegraph office, Royston (R.S.) Acreage, 576 of land and 16 of water; population, 1060. The population has considerably increased during the past few years. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belongs to Lord St Oswald. There is a colliery. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1875. Population, 1265. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of York; net value, £150. Patron, Lord St Oswald. The church was built in 1874 and enlarged in 1886, and consists of chancel, nave, S porch, and bell-turret. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Wragby | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Staincross |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Ryhill 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 Ryhill 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: