Place:Blackshaw, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameBlackshaw
Alt namesBlackshaw Headsource: GENUKI
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates53.7439°N 2.0667°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inYorkshire, England    
West Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
See alsoTodmorden Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district of which it was a part 1894-1939
Hepton Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district of which it was a part 1939-1974
Calderdale (metropolitan borough), West Yorkshire, Englandmetropolitian area of which it is part since 1974
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Since 1974 Blackshaw has been a civil parish in the Calderdale metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. It contains the village of Blackshaw Head. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 935.

Historically, Blackshaw was in the ancient and ecclesiastical parish of Halifax in the Morley Division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley. From 1894 until 1939, Blackshaw was located in Todmorden Rural District and from 1939 until 1974 in the Hepton Rural District.

Research Tips

  • GENUKI on Blackshaw Head. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
  • The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Halifax provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time on Blackshaw.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for what is now South Yorkshire, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.
  • Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
  • Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (the southern part of Bradford, the southern part of Leeds, the southern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the southern part of Selby, Goole Rural District, and all the divisions of Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield)
  • Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
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