GENUKI: Normanton

The Ancient Parish of NORMANTON

[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"NORMANTON, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield, 4½ miles NE. of Wakefield, 5 from Pontefract, 25 from York. Pop. 250.

The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Andrew, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, ~£7. p.r. £150. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. In this Church is buried the celebrated James Torre, Esq. whose manuscript collections of the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of this county stand unrivalled. He died at Snydale, in this parish, July 31, 1699. --Drake's Ebor. Preface.

Here is a Grammar School, founded and endowed with £10. per annum, by John Fraston, Esq. in the year 1591, for all scholars of his sir name, and thirty others, out of the parishes of Normanton and Warmfield. The money is paid out of the University of Oxford."

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

Altofts
Newland Park
Snydale
Streethouse
Woodhouse

Churches

Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- All Saints' Church, Normanton.
- The Methodist Church (1903), Normanton. (The Church's website is here.)
- The Baptist Church, Normanton.
- The Roman Catholic Church, Normanton.
  - Internal view looking down the nave
- The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Altofts.
- The Methodist Church, Altofts.
- The Methodist Church, Streethouse.

Church History

A transcription of Normanton Baptist Church History
Transcript of the entry for Normanton in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".

Church Records

The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Normanton.

Directories

Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.
Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the White's General and Commercial Directory, of Wakefield, Horbury, Alverthorpe, Sandal Magna, Stanley and Normanton - 1887

Gazetteers

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.
There is further information about this parish from the White's General and Commercial Directory, of Wakefield, Horbury, Alverthorpe, Sandal Magna, Stanley and Normanton - 1887

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

Transcription and photograph of Normanton war memorial
Transcription and photograph of Streethouse and Snydale war memorial
The World War I and II memorial at Altofts.
The War memorial and plaques at Normanton

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:
- (SE395231) Hopetown
- (SE381240) Lower Altofts
- (SE408210) Snydale Hall

Societies

This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies:
- Wakefield and district FHS
- Pontefract and District FHS

Taxation

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

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