List of Districts |
Table 1A: List of Places in Halifax Registration District (1837–1974)
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). |
Table 1B: List of Places in Halifax Registration District (1974–2002)
All the areas in Halifax registration district became part of the county of West Yorkshire on 1.4.1974.
Civil Parish |
County |
From |
To |
Comments |
Calderdale* |
1974 |
2002 |
Unparished area which until 1.4.1974 formed the parishes of Brighouse, Elland, Halifax and Sowerby Bridge and part of the parish of Queensbury & Shelf. See also Table 2, notes (g) and (h). |
|
Ripponden |
1974 |
2002 |
See Table 2, notes (g) and (h). |
Table 2: Boundary Changes affecting Halifax Registration District
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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