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For a definition of "wapentake", see the article entitled Hundred (county division) in Wikipedia.
Wapentakes, the Old Norse form of the Anglo-Saxon "hundred", are dealt with in Section 1.4, but Sections 1.1 (Hundred courts) and 1.2 (Administrative functions) deal with the concept and purposes of wapentakes along with those of "hundreds" used in English counties further south.
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Staincross (#12 on the map) was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and roughly covers the area of Barnsley in South Yorkshire today. The district was named for the village of Staincross (where the wapentake is originally supposed to have met).
One might assume that Staincross Wapentake is a shortening of Staincliffe and Ewcross Wapentake (#1, #2 and #3 on the map) situated in the far northwest of the West Riding. This is not so. They are two separate places.
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Ancient parishes
In the West Riding many ancient parishes included numerous townships and it was decided to omit this information from this table. Further tables for these large parishes will be found under the parishes concerned.
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Ancient parish | Parish status | Division
| | Cawthorne | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Cumberworth | township, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Darfield | township, parish (ancient), civil parish | Some townships only.
| | Darton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Felkirk | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Hemsworth | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | High Hoyland | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Penistone | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Royston | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Silkstone | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Tankersley | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Wragby | parish (ancient) | Some townships only.
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