Staincross Wapentake
Staincross was a Wapentake (Hundred), which is an administrative division (or ancient district),[1] in the historic county of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It consisted of seven parishes, and included the towns of Barnsley and Penistone
History[edit]
Staincross was named after the village of Staincross and also included the parishes of Cawthorne, Darton, Felkirk, Hemsworth, High Hoyland, Penistone, Royston,[note 1] Silkstone (including Barnsley) and Tankersley and parts of Darfield.[2][3] Of the nine wapentakes in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Staincross typically had the lowest population density, which was recorded in 1867 as 27,089.[4]
The original meeting place of the wapentake is believed to have been in, or near, to the village of Staincross, similar to the wapentakes at Ewcross and Osgoldcross.[5] The name derives from the Old Norse of stein-kross, literally, stone cross.[6]
Originally located in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the majority of area within Staincross Wapentake is now within South Yorkshire, with Hemsworth and surrounding villages today a part of the Wakefield Metropolitan District, within West Yorkshire.[7] The original boundaries nestled against the wapentakes of Agbrigg to the north, Osgoldcross to the east and Strafforth to the south and south east.[8] On the western edge, the wapentake bordered the Hamestan Hundred of Cheshire. It was estimated to have covered an area of 130 square miles (340 km2), although, according to Domesday records, a smaller portion, geographically removed from the rest of the wapentake, was located at the village of Adlingfleet where the rivers Ouse and Trent converge.[9]
Although some distance from the village of Staincross, the Church of All Saints, Silkstone, was sometimes known as the "Mother Church" of the Staincross Wapentake.[10]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Sometimes spelt as Roystone
References[edit]
- ^ "Hallikeld Wap through time | Census tables with data for the Ancient District". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "Staincross | As described in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ^ "The West Riding Divided". Huddersfield Chronicle. No. 590. Column A. 6 July 1881. p. 5.
- ^ "The Triple Division of the West Riding". Huddersfield Chronicle. No. 897. Column A. 29 June 1867. p. 7.
- ^ Smith, A H (1961). The place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 261. OCLC 871561411.
- ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1947). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (3 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 415. OCLC 12542596.
- ^ Chrystal, Paul (2017). The Place Names of Yorkshire; Cities, Towns, Villages, Rivers and Dales, some Pubs too, in Praise of Yorkshire Ales (1 ed.). Catrine: Stenlake. p. 100. ISBN 9781840337532.
- ^ Langdale, Thomas (1822). A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire. Northallerton: J Langdale. p. 418. OCLC 5211910.
- ^ Skinner, Alexis (2014). "Impact and change: assembly practices in the Northern Danelaw" (PDF). etheses.dur.ac.uk. p. 449. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ^ Bower, Jane (9 November 2015). "Wonderfully Made in Yorkshire comes to Barnsley church | The Diocese of Leeds, Church of England". www.leeds.anglican.org. Retrieved 4 March 2020.