Hartshead

Hartshead St Peters

Hartshead is a village on the summit of a lofty Hill four mile West of Dewsbury, five mile North East of Huddersfield, six mile South East from Halifax, eight mile South West from Bradford and two & half mile from Brighouse railway station.
The Church of St Peter is an ancient Norman structure, and was in being at the time when the living at Dewsbury was granted by the second Earl Warren to the Prior of Lewes about the year 1120.
The Church consists of Chancel and Nave with square Tower and three bells, the oldest bearing the date 1627 and the two others 1700 and 1701. Two of bells are cracked and one snipped, hence the old saying “Hartshead cum Clifton, two crack’d bells and a snipp’d un.”
The registers date from the year 1612 and are in good condition. The living is a vicarage, yearly value of £202 in the gift of the Vicar of Dewsbury and held by the Rev Thomas King M.A. of St John’ Collage, Cambridge.
The Wesleyan chapel was erected at a cost of £1,000, from designs by W.H. Howorth, architect, Cleckheaton. There are charities of £82 yearly arising from dividends, left by the Popplewell family.
The making of cards and machine wire drawing is carried out, and there are Coal Mines and Stone Quarries. Sir George Armytage bart, is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
The soil is light; subsoil clay and stone. The land is chiefly in pasture. The population of Hartshead in 1871 is 834; the area, including Clifton, 3,070 acres; rateable value, £2,715

Main Content

Hartshead Map

Parish Registers

Baptisms 1612-1968
Marriages 1612-1973
Burials 1612-1964 (See Database)
Banns 1846-1986

Other Documents

Memorial Inscriptions

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