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The ParishThe parish of Elland lies in southwestern Yorkshire not too far from its border with neighbouring Lancashire. Elland was created as a separate parish from the vast West Yorkshire parish of Halifax in 1724 prior to that it was a chapelry within that parish. Elland is located roughly midway between its mother parish, the industrial town of Halifax, and Huddersfield being 3 miles southeast of the former and about the same northwest of the latter. Elland sits astride the busy A629 road which connects the two and which passes through the town on something of a bypass to the east of the main centre. Elland was formerly a market town but had lost those privileges prior to the industrial revolution when the whole area developed through the manufacture of cloth. The River Calder, which sits below Elland, powered the looms of the cloth mills and the population expanded as the need for labour grew. Today Elland is something of a postindustrial town, the dirty, heavy industries having decayed from foreign imports and light industry now dominates the town. Besides the cloth industry, coal mines were present in the area and quarrying for the local gritstone diversified the economy. Today Elland spreads for some 2 miles along the southern banks of the River Calder, modern communications flow through the parish; the Calder & Hebble Navigation, the former rail line now has no stop at Elland but the modern M62 trans-Pennine Motorway cuts through the southern portion of the parish. The Calder drains the parish eastwards, joining the Aire at Castleford before reaching the North Sea through the Humber Estuary. Elland is sited at around 90 metres above the sea but modern estates to the west rise to over 130 metres, the landscape is deeply incised and local heights are at over 250 metres within a mile or two of the town, the land rising to the Pennine Hills to the west. Elland's share of the acreage of Halifax parish amounted to around 3,400 acres making its rather small for a Pennine parish but its population grew steadily to reach around 6,500 parishioners by the end of this transcript period. In Domesday times Elland was a relatively small place, held by one Ilbert of Lacy it could offer a pair of ploughs and small meadows and woodlands. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 5th April 1754 - 15th October 1764 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference
- WDP79/1/3/1 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Fading of this register may lead to one or two misreads |
2 | 18th October 1764 - 15th February 1779 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP79/1/3/2 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Fading of this register may lead to one or two misreads |
3 | 15th February 1779 - 28th May 1792 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP79/1/3/3 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | Fading is very prevalent in this register leading to a likelihood of many misreads |
4 | 28th May 1792 - 18th February 1802 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP79/1/3/4 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
5 | 21st February 1802 - 31st December 1812 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP79/1/3/5 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
6 | 3rd January 1813 - 26th August 1821 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP79/1/3/6 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
7 | 26th August 1821 - 25th December 1828 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP79/1/3/7 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
8 | 25th December 1828 - 20th April 1835 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP79/1/3/8 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
9 | 20th April 1835 - 26th June 1837 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Wakefield - Reference - WDP79/1/3/9 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Halifax
St John
Sowerby St Peter |
Halifax St
John
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Halifax
St John
Hartshead St Peter |
Halifax St
John
Ripponden St Bartholomew |
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