GENUKI: Penistone

The Ancient Parish of PENISTONE

[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"PENISTONE, a market and parish-town, in the wapentake of Staincross, liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Barnsley, 12¾ from Huddersfield, 13¾ from Sheffield, 14 from Wakefield, 15 from Rotherham, 26 from Stockport, (Chesh.) 45 from York, 176 from London. Market, Thursday. Fairs, last Thursday in February; last Thursday in March; first Thursday in May; and Thursday after old Michaelmas day, for horses and horned cattle. Principal Inn, Rose and Crown. Pop. 645. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. John the Baptist (see Churches for photograph), in the deanry of Doncaster, value, ~£16. 14s. 2d. p.r. £146. 18s. 4d. Patron, the Right Hon. Major General Godfrey Bosville.

This is a small market-town, little superior to a village, as the population will evince. It is chiefly noted for the number of moor sheep sold at its markets and fairs.

Here is a Free Grammar School, endowed with £100. per annum, and also the interest of £200. for the education of eight poor girls."

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

Aldermans Head
Bagden
Bilcliffe
Black Moor
Bleak Royd
Bord Hill
Bower Hill
Bradshaw
Briery Busk
Brook House
Bull House
Carlecotes
Cross Royd
Cubley
Dean Head
Denby
Denby Dale
Dick Royd House
Dunkirk
Dyson Cote
Ecklands

Exley Gate
Flash House
Gunthwaite
Hand Bank
Hazelhead
High Flatts
Holley Hall
Hoodlands
Hordron
Hornthwaite
Hunshelf
Hunshelf Bank
Illions
Ingbirchworth
Langsett
Moor Hallas
New Chapel
Oxspring
Paw Hill
Pond
Raynar

Roughbirchworth
Royd Field
Royd Moor
Saltersbrook
Savile House
Schole Hill
Sheephouse
Small Shaw
Snowden Hill
Softley
Spicer Hill House
Strainds
Swindon
Thurlstone
Under Bank
Unshriven Bridge
Upper Denby
Water Hall
Windleden
Wraith House

Churches

Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- St. John the Baptist's Church, Penistone, view 1 - they really don't want you to see the Church from the road. (The Church's website is here.)
- St. John the Baptist's Church, Penistone, view 2 - a bit better in winter.
- St. John the Baptist's Church, Penistone, view 3.
- St. John the Baptist's Church, Penistone, view 4 - the best view available.
- St. Andrew's United Reformed Church, Penistone.
- The Church of St. John the Evangelist, Denby,
- Holy Trinity Church, Denby Dale, view 1.
- Holy Trinity Church, Denby Dale, view 2.
- The Methodist Church, Denby Dale.
- St. Saviour's Church, Thurlstone.
- Thurlstone and Millhouse Green Methodist Church, Thurlstone.
- The Methodist Church, Springvale.
- St Aidan's Church, Oxspring. (The Church's website is here.)
- The Wesleyan Reform Church, Bird's Edge.
- St. Anne's Church, Carlcotes, in the grounds of Carlecotes Hall. (The Church's website is here.)
- The Independent non-Conformist Chapel, Bullhouse.
- The Methodist Church, Millhouse Green.
- St. Saviour's Church, Thurlstone. (The Church's website is here.)
- The Wesleyan Church, Thurlstone.

Church History

A transcription of the Peniston - Bull House Congregational Church History
A transcription of the Peniston-Netherfield Chapel Congregational Church History
Transcript of the entry for Penistone in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
Transcript of the entry for Denby in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".

Church Records

The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Penistone.
The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Cumberworth.
The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Denby.

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 Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the White's 1837 Gazetteer, History and Directory, of the West Riding.

Gazetteers

There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
There is further information about this parish from the White's 1837 Gazetteer, History and Directory, of the West Riding.
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 Peniston - Bull House Congregational Church History
A transcription of the Peniston-Netherfield Chapel 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

Two books have been researched, written and produced by a local Penistone couple to commemorate all the men from Penistone, Thurlstone and the surrounding areas who lost their lives in "The Great War".
The War Memorial next to St. John's church, Penistone.
The 1914-18 and 1939-1945 War Memorial Denby Dale.

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:
- (SE203075) Birds Edge
- (SE254026) Castle Green
- (SE209033) Catshaw
- (SE187047) Crow Edge
- (SE158024) Dunford Bridge
- (SE277026) Four Lane End
- (SE210013) Fullshaw
- (SE226028) Hillside
- (SE241097) Kitchenroyd
- (SE218031) Millhouse Green
- (SE244079) Nether End
- (SE294021) Pinfold Hill
- (SE218036) Royd
- (SE236048) Scout Dyke
- (SE186030) Soughley
- (SE256030) Spring Vale
- (SE246023) The Green
- (SE166029) Town Head

Societies

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

Taxation

Andreas Sarker has transcribed the Land Tax assessments for Thurlstone for 1802 and 1803.
A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.

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