Upperthong Yorkshire Family History Guide
Upperthong is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1846 from Almondbury Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Thongs Bridge.
Alternative names: Kirkburton St John the Evangelist, Upper Thong, Upperthong with Holmfirth
Riding: West Riding
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1846
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1848
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
THONG (Upper), a township-chapelry in Almondbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 6 miles S by W of Huddersfield.
It contains part of Holmfirth, which has a post-office under Huddersfield, and a r. station. Acres, 710. Real property, £7,977; of which £414 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 2,463; in 1861, 2,690. Houses, 543. There are many genteel residences.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £162. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1847.
There are three dissenting chapels.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Huddersfield
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Huddersfield
- Hundred: Agbrigg
- Province: York