GENUKI: High Hoyland

The Ancient Parish of HIGH HOYLAND

[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"HIGH HOYLAND, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Staincross, liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles N. of Penistone, 6½ from Barnsley, 9 from Wakefield, 37 from York. Pop. 268. The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, in two medieties, each, ~£5. 3s. 4d. Patrons, Colonel and Mrs. Beaumont.

Anciently these two medieties had separate Patrons, and separate Rectors each Incumbent having distinct parsonage Houses, glebes, tithes, &c. and performed the duty alternately. Col. and Mrs. Beaumont having purchased the advowson of the second mediety of the Earl of Mexborough, in 1811, there has been but one Incumbent since."

Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.

Bilham Grange
Bretton Dykes
Busker
Cisset
Clayton West

Lower Cumberworth
Park Gate
Skelmanthorpe
Toppit

Cemeteries

The Barnsley FHS has the full Monumental inscriptions for the High Hoyland Parish Church for sale on the Genfair site. This includes Tombstones, Plaques and Memorial Windows, recorded in 1975 by Hilda L. Dearnley.

Churches

Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- All Saints Church, Clayton West, view 1.
- All Saints Church, Clayton West, view 2.
- The United Reformed Church, Clayton West.
- St. Aidan's Church, Skelmanthorpe, view 1.
  - Internal view looking down the nave
  - The font
- St. Aidan's Church, Skelmanthorpe, view 2.
- The former Wesleyan Chapel, Skelmanthorpe.
- The Trinity Evangelical Church, Skelmanthorpe. This Church is in the cemetery grounds. (The Church's website is here.)

Church History

A transcription of the Clayton West Congregational Church History
Transcript of the entry for High Hoyland in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".

Church Records

The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of High Hoyland.

Directories

Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.

Gazetteers

There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, Yorkshire extracts.

History

A transcription of the Clayton West Congregational Church History

Maps

For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.

Memorial Inscriptions

The World War I and II War Memorial at Hoyland.

Names, Geographical

The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
- (SE260114) Park Mill

Societies

This parish is covered by the following Society:
- Barnsley FHS

Taxation

A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.

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