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Name | Lepton |
Alt names | Leptone | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 317 |
Type | Township, Urban district, Suburb |
Coordinates | 53.633°N 1.694°W |
Located in | West Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974) |
Also located in | Yorkshire, England | | West Yorkshire, England (1974 - ) |
See also | Kirkheaton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | ancient parish in which it was a chapelry | | Agbrigg and Morley Wapentake, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | wapentake in which it was located | | Kirkburton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | civil parish which absorbed part of the urban district in 1938 | | Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | municipal borough which absorbed part of the urban district in 1938 | | Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England | district municipality in which it has been located since 1974 |
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Lepton is now a suburb of Huddersfield in the District of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is 4.25 miles (7 km) to the east of, and 120 metres (390 ft) above, the town centre and directly north of Lepton Great Wood.
From 1894 until 1938 Lepton was an urban district which was split between Kirkburton and Huddersfield, with Kirkburton absorbing much the greater area of the urban district. In the 19th century and before, it was a chapelry in the ecclesiastical parish of Kirkheaton in the Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley Wapentake. It was in Huddersfield Registration District.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Lepton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "LEPTON, a township in Kirkheaton parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire; on the York and Manchester railway, 4 miles E by S of Huddersfield. It contains the post office of Fenay-Bridge, under Huddersfield; and the villages or hamlets of Great Lepton, Little Lepton, Cowms, Gawthorp, Highgate-Lane, Lascelles-Hall, Lidget, Rowley, and Waterloo. Acres: 1,651. Real property: £5,403; of which £150 are in mines, and £9 in quarries. Population in 1851: 3,592; in 1861: 3,273. Houses: 737. The woollen manufacture is largely carried on. A national school was erected in 1860, at a cost of £1,300; and is used as a chapel of ease. A Wesleyan chapel is at Cowms; a Primitive Methodist chapel, at Leptonfields; and mechanics' institutes at Leptonfields and Lascelles Hall."
Research Tips
- GENUKI on Lepton. 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 Lepton.
- 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.
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Categories: West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Lepton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Kirkheaton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Agbrigg and Morley Wapentake, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Kirkburton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England
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