Stanley cum Wrenthorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Stanley-cum-Wrenthorpe, two hamlets, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Wakefield parish, W.R. Yorkshire. The hamlets stand on the river Calder, 2 miles SE of Outwood railway station, and 2 NNE of Wakefield, and have a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wakefield. The township includes the N suburbs of Wakefield, Eastmoor, Newton Potovens, and several small hamlets, and contains Wakefield waterworks and workhouse, and the West Riding pauper lunatic asylum, and comprises 4604 acres of land and 70 of water; population, 15,576. There are numerous good residences. A Roman station with a Roman mint was on an eminence above Lake Lock. Pindar's Field, where Robin Hood is said to have fought the Pindar of Wakefield, is near Fieldhead. There are several collieries, brickfields, and roperies. The pauper lunatic asylum was built at a cost of more than £100,000, and has a convalescent home attached to it. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1830. Population, 5471. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £314 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Wakefield. Stanley Church was built in 1824 at a cost of about £12,000, underwent repair in 1851 at a cost of £1100, and is in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chance!, nave, aisles, and two turrets. The township contains also Outwood Church, Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, a cottage hospital, hospital for infectious diseases, and two almshouses.
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 | Wakefield | |
Poor Law union | Wakefield | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Agbrigg |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stanley cum Wrenthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stanley, with Wrenthorpe)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: