Catalogue description WAPENTAKE OF AGBRIGG, LOWER DIVISION

This record is held by West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Details of QE13/1
Reference: QE13/1
Title: WAPENTAKE OF AGBRIGG, LOWER DIVISION
Description:

Returns for the years 1786, 1806 and 1816 have not survived for any township in Agbrigg, except for a return of 1816 for Rothwell. The returns for the Wakefield divisions of Kirkgate, Northgate and Westgate are extant from the 1750s, 1760s and 1770s.

 

The following townships were in the lower division of the wapentake of Agbrigg:

Ackton; Altofts; Alverthorpe and Thornes; East Ardsley; West Ardsley; Batley; West Bretton; Carlton; Crigglestone; Crofton; Dewsbury; Emley; Flockton Nether; Flockton Upper or Over; Honley; Horbury; Lofthouse; Methley; Middleton; Mirfield; Morley; Normanton; Ossett; Rothwell; Rothwell Haigh; Royds Green; Sandal; Sharlston; Shitlington; Snydale; Soothill Nether; Soothill Upper; Stanley; Thornhill; Wakefield; Wakefield Kirkgate; Wakefield Northgate; Wakefield Westgate; Walton; Warmfield with Heath; Whitwood; Woodlesford.
Related material:

A number of unidentified returns for townships in the wapentake of Agbrigg are to be found at QE13/1/44.

Held by: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: A000006/5/6/1/1
Language: English

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