Halifax Registration District (original) (raw)
Civil Parish
County
From
To
Comments
Barkisland
1837
1937
Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to the parish of Ripponden.
Brighouse
1894
1938
Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Hipperholme with Brighouse in Brighouse Municipal Borough. See also Table 2, notes (e) and (f).
Clifton
1837
1937
Abolished 1.4.1937 and divided between the parishes of Brighouse, Cleckheaton and Liversedge. See also Table 2, note (e).
Elland
1894
1938
Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Elland with Greetland in Elland Urban District. See also Table 2, note (e).
Elland with Greetland
1837
1894
Abolished 1894 to become the separate parishes of Elland, Greetland and Upper Greetland.
Fixby
1837
1937
Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to the parish of Huddesfield, Elland and Brighouse. See also Table 2, note (f).
Greetland
1894
1937
Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Elland with Greetland in Greetland Urban District. Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to the parish of Elland.
Halifax
1837
1974
Abolished 1.4.1974 and added to the Calderdale unparished area.
Hartshead
1837
1937
Abolished 1.4.1937 and divided between the parishes of Liversedge and Brighouse. See also Table 2, note (e).
Hipperholme
1894
1937
Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Hipperholme with Brighouse in Hipperholme Urban District. Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to the parish of Brighouse. See also Table 2, note (c).
Hipperholme with Brighouse
1837
1894
Abolished 1894 to become the separate parishes of Brighouse, Hipperholme and Norwood Green & Coley.
Luddenden Foot
1894
1937
Created 1894 from the parts of the parishes of Warley, Sowerby and Midgley, in Luddenden Foot Urban District. Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to the parish of Sowerby Bridge.
Midgley
1837
1938
See Table 2, notes (b) and (e).
Norland
1837
1937
Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to the parish of Sowerby Bridge.
Northowram
1837
1900
Abolished 9.11.1900 and added to the parish of Halifax.
Norwood Green & Coley
1894
1937
Created 1894 from the rural part of the parish of Hipperholme with Brighouse. Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to the parish of Brighouse.
Queensbury
1894
1937
Created 1894 from the parts of the parishes of Northowram and Clayton in Queensbury Urban District. Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to the parish of Queensbury & Shelf. See also Table 2, note (a).
Queensbury & Shelf
1937
1938
Created 1.4.1937 from the parishes of Queesnbury and Shelf. See also Table 2, note (e).
Rastrick
1837
1915
Abolished 1.4.1915 and added to the parish of Brighouse.
Ripponden
1937
1938
Created 1.4.1937 from the parishes of Soyland, Barkisland, Rishworth and Sowerby. See also Table 2, note (e).
Rishworth
1837
1937
Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to the parish of Ripponden.
Shelf
1837
1937
Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to the parish of Queensbury & Shelf.
Skircoat
1837
1899
Abolished 9.11.1899 and divided between the parishes of Halifax and Sowerby Bridge.
Southowram
1837
1937
Abolished 1.4.1937 and divided between the parishes of Brighouse and Elland.
Sowerby
1837
1937
Created 1.4.1926 by renaming the parish of Sowerby. Abolished 1.4.1937 and divided between the parishes of Sowerby Bridge and Ripponden. See also Table 2, note (b).
Sowerby Bridge
1894
1926
Created 1894 from the parts of the parishes of Warley, Skircoat, Sowerby and Norland, in Sowerby Bridge Urban District. Renamed 1.4.1926 to become the parish of Sowerby.
Sowerby Bridge
1937
1938
Created 1.4.1937 out of the parishes of Sowerby, Luddenden Foot and Norland. See also Table 2, note (e).
Soyland
1837
1937
Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to the parish of Ripponden.
Stainland and Old Lindley
1837
1937
Abolished 1.4.1937 and divided between the parishes of Elland and Huddersfield. See also Table 2, notes (d) and (f).
Upper Greetland
1894
1937
Created 1894 from the rural part of the parish of Elland with Greetland. Abolished 1.4.1937 and added to the parish of Elland.
Warley
1837
1900
Abolished 9.11.1900 and added to the parish of Halifax.
Cleckheaton
1937
1938
That part which until 1.4.1937 formed parts of the parishes of Clifton and Hartshead. See also Table 2, note (e).
Huddersfield
1937
1938
That part which until 1.4.1937 formed parts of the parishes of Brighouse, Fixby and Stainland with Old Lindley. See also Table 2, note (f).
Liversedge
1937
1938
That part which until 1.4.1937 formed parts of the parishes of Clifton and Hartshead. See also Table 2, note (e).
All the areas in Halifax registration district became part of the county of West Yorkshire on 1.4.1974.
Date of Change
Note
Description of Change
Population transferred
1.6.1895
(a)
Gained part of the parish of Queensbury (which until 1894 formed part of the parish of Clayton) from North Bierley registration district.
2777 in 1891
(b)
Lost parts of the parishes of Midgley and Sowerby (which became parts of the parish of Mytholmroyd in 1894) to Todmorden registration district.
2256 in 1891
9.11.1899
(c)
Gained part of the parish of Hipperholme (which until 9.11.1899 formed part of the parish of Wyke) from North Bierley registration district.
446 in 1891
1.1.1914
(d)
Lost part of the parish of Stainland with Old Lindley (which was added to the parish of Longwood on 9.11.1913) to Huddersfield registration district.
0 in 1911
1.4.1938
(e)
Lost the parts in the parishes of Cleckheaton and Liversedge (which until 1.4.1937 formed parts of the parishes of Clifton and Hartshead) and the parishes of Brighouse, Elland, Midgley, Queensbury & Shelf, Ripponden and Sowerby Bridge, to Calder registration district.
87241 in 1931
(f)
Lost the part in the parish of Huddersfield (which until 1.4.1937 formed parts of the parishes of Brighouse, Fixby and Stainland with Old Lindley) to Huddersfield registration district.
475 n 1931
1.4.1974
(g)
Gained part of the Calderdale unparished area (which until 1.4.1974 formed the parishes of Brighouse, Elland and Sowerby Bridge and part of the parish of Queensbury & Shelf) and the parish of Ripponden, from Calder registration district.
73024 in 1971
1.1.2003 (abolished)
(h)
Lost the Calderdale unparished area and the parish of Ripponden, to Calderdale registration district.
n/a
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