Place:Kirkheaton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Kirkheaton is now a village northeast of Huddersfield in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England with a population of 4,209 together with the former hamlet of Upper Heaton (UK census of 2001). Prior to 1974, it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire where it was an urban district from 1894 until 1938 and part of the Borough of Huddersfield from 1938 until 1974.

GENUKI provides a description of the ecclesiastical parish of Kirkheaton from a gazetteer from the 1820s. It was in the Agbrigg division of the Agbrigg and Morley Wapentake.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Kirkheaton. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Kirkheaton provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Kirkheaton.
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to maps of the West Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. The location of individual settlements within the parishes is also shown. These maps all expand to a very large scale.

• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
• Ordnance Survey West Riding North 1900 and Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. NOTE: In 2022 the map of the southern section is not available through the Vision of Britain website. It is unknown if this omission is accidental or if the copy used by the university has been damaged in some way.
• Yorkshire West Riding South and Yorkshire West Riding North revised_1944. These two maps illustrate the urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
• A further useful map on A Vision of Britain through Time is a boundary map dated 1917. This shows all the boundaries of villages, townships and parishes in the Holmfirth area.