Halifax Registration District

HALIFAX REGISTRATION DISTRICT

Registration County : Yorkshire West Riding (1837–1974); West Yorkshire (1974–2002).
Created : 1.7.1837.
Abolished : 1.1.2003 (to become part of Calderdale registration district).
Sub-districts : Brighouse, Elland, Halifax, Halifax North, Halifax South, Luddenden, Northowram, Ovenden, Rastrick, Ripponden, Southowram, Sowerby
GRO volumes : XXII (1837–51), 9a (1852–1946), 2B (1946–74), 4 (1974–92).
Registers currently held at : Calderdale, Dewsbury and Huddersfield.

Table 1A: List of Places in Halifax Registration District (1837–1974)

Civil Parish	County	From	To	Comments
Barkisland	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 to become part of the parish of Ripponden.
Brighouse	Yorkshire West Riding	1894	1938	Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Hipperholme with Brighouse in Brighouse Municipal Borough. See also Table 2, notes (f) and (i).
Clifton	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 to become parts of the parishes of Brighouse, Cleckheaton, and Liversedge. See also Table 2, note (g).
Elland	Yorkshire West Riding	1894	1938	Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Elland with Greetland in Elland Urban DIstrict. See also Table 2, note (f).
Elland with Greetland	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1894	Abolished 1894 to become the separate parishes of Elland, Greetland, and Upper Greetland.
Fixby	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 to become part of the parish of Huddesfield, Elland, and Brighouse. See also Table 2, note (j).
Greetland	Yorkshire West Riding	1894	1937	Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Elland with Greetland in Greetland Urban DIstrict. Abolished 1.4.1937 to become part of the parish of Elland.
Halifax	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1974	Abolished 1.4.1974 to become an unparished area.
Hartshead	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 to become parts of the parishes of Liversedge and Brighouse. See also Table 2, note (h).
Hipperholme	Yorkshire West Riding	1894	1937	Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Hipperholme with Brighouse in Hipperholme Urban District. Abolished 1.4.1937 to become part of the parish of Brighouse. See also Table 2, note (d).
Hipperholme with Brighouse	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1894	Abolished 1894 to become the separate parishes of Brighouse, Hipperholme, and Norwood Green & Coley.
Luddenden Foot	Yorkshire West Riding	1894	1937	Created 1894 from the parts of the parishes of Warley, Sowerby, and Midgley, in Luddenden Foot Urban District. Abolished 1.4.1937 to become part of the parish of Sowerby Bridge.
Midgley	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1938	See Table 2, notes (b) and (f).
Norland	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 to become part of the parish of Sowerby Bridge.
Northowram	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1900	Abolished 9.11.1900 to become part of the parish of Halifax.
Norwood Green & Coley	Yorkshire West Riding	1894	1937	Created 1894 from the rural part of the parish of Hipperholme with Brighouse. Abolished 1.4.1937 to become part of the parish of Brighouse.
Northowram	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1900	Abolished 9.11.1900 to become part of the parish of Halifax.
Queensbury	Yorkshire West Riding	1894	1937	Created 1894 from the parts of the parishes of Northowram and Clayton in Queensbury Urban District. Abolished 1.4.1937 to become part of the parish of Queensbury & Shelf. See also Table 2, note (a).
Queensbury & Shelf	Yorkshire West Riding	1937	1938	Created 1.4.1937 from the parishes of Queesnbury and Shelf. See also Table 2, note (f).
Rastrick	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1915	Abolished 1.4.1915 to become part of the parish of Brighouse.
Ripponden	Yorkshire West Riding	1937	1938	Created 1.4.1937 from the parishes of Soyland, Barkisland, Rishworth, and Sowerby. See also Table 2, note (f).
Rishworth	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 to become part of the parish of Ripponden.
Shelf	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 to become part of the parish of Queensbury & Shelf.
Skircoat	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1899	Abolished 9.11.1899 to become parts of the parishes of Halifax and Sowerby Bridge.
Southowram	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 to become parts of the parishes of Brighouse and Elland.
Sowerby	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1937	Created 1.4.1926 by renaming the parish of Sowerby. Abolished 1.4.1937 to become parts of the parishes of Sowerby Bridge and Ripponden. See also Table 2, note (c).
Sowerby Bridge	Yorkshire West Riding	1894	1926	Created 1894 from the parts of the parishes of Warley, Skircoat, Soweby, and Norland, in Sowerby Bridge Urban District. Abolished 1.4.1926 to become the parish of Sowerby.
Sowerby Bridge	Yorkshire West Riding	1937	1938	Created 1.4.1937 out of the parishes of Sowerby, Luddenden Foot, and Norland. See also Table 2, note (f).
Soyland	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 to become part of the parish of Ripponden.
Stainland and Old Lindley	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1937	Abolished 1.4.1937 to become parts of the parishes of Elland and Huddersfield. See also Table 2, notes (e) and (k).
Upper Greetland	Yorkshire West Riding	1894	1937	Created 1894 from the rural part of the parish of Elland with Greetland. Abolished 1.4.1937 to become part of the parish of Elland.
Warley	Yorkshire West Riding	1837	1900	Abolished 9.11.1900 to become part of the parish of Halifax.

Table 1B: List of Places in Halifax Registration District (1974–2002)

All the areas in Halifax registration district became part of the county of West Yorkshire on 1.4.1974.

Civil Parish (or Unparished Area)	County	From	To	Comments
Brighouse	West Yorkshire	1974	2002	Unparished area which until 1.4.1974 formed the parish and municipal borough of Brighouse. See also Table 2, notes (l) and (m).
Elland	West Yorkshire	1974	2002	Unparished area which until 1.4.1974 formed the parish and urban district of Elland. See also Table 2, notes (l) and (m).
Halifax	West Yorkshire	1974	2002	Unparished area which until 1.4.1974 formed the parish and county borough of Halifax. See also Table 2, note (m).
Ripponden	West Yorkshire	1974	2002	See Table 2, notes (l) and (m).
Shelf	West Yorkshire	1974	2002	Unparished area which until 1.4.1974 formed part of the parish and urban district of Queensbury & Shelf. See also Table 2, notes (l) and (m).
Sowerby Bridge	West Yorkshire	1974	2002	Unparished area which until 1.4.1974 formed the parish and urban district of Sowerby Bridge. See also Table 2, notes (l) and (m).

Table 2: Boundary Changes affecting Halifax Registration District

Date of Change	Note	Description of Change	Population transferred
1.6.1895	(a)	Gained part of the parish of Queensbury (which until 1894 formed part of the parish of Clayton) from North Bierley registration district.	2777 in 1891
	(b)	Lost part of the parish of Midgley (which became part of the parish of Mytholmroyd in 1894) to Todmorden registration district.	598 in 1891
	(c)	Lost part of the parish of Sowerby (which became part of the parish of Mytholmroyd in 1894) to Todmorden registration district.	1658 in 1891
9.11.1899	(d)	Gained part of the parish of Hipperholme (which until 9.11.1899 formed part of the parish of Wyke) from North Bierley registration district.	446 in 1891
1.1.1914	(e)	Lost part of the parish of Stainland with Old Lindley (which became part of the parish of Longwood on 9.11.1913) to Huddersfield registration district.	0 in 1911
1.4.1938	(f)	Lost the parishes of Brighouse, Elland, Midgley, Queensbury & Shelf, Ripponden, and Sowerby Bridge, to Calder registration district.	86100 in 1931
	(g)	Lost parts of the parish of Clifton (which became parts of the parishes of Cleckheaton and Liversedge on 1.4.1937) to Calder registration district.	308 in 1931
	(h)	Lost part of the parish of Hartshead (which became part of the parish of Liversedge on 1.4.1937) to Calder registration district.	833 in 1931
	(i)	Lost part of the parish of Brighouse (which became part of the parish of Huddersfield on 1.4.1937) to Huddersfield registration district.	0 in 1931
	(j)	Lost part of the parish of Fixby (which became part of the parish of Huddersfield on 1.4.1937) to Huddersfield registration district.	329 in 1931
	(k)	Lost part of the parish of Stainland with Old Lindley (which became part of the parish of Huddersfield on 1.4.1937) to Huddersfield registration district.	146 in 1931
1.4.1974	(l)	Gained the parish of Ripponden, and the unparished areas of Brighouse, Elland, Shelf, and Sowerby Bridge, from Calder registration district.
1.1.2003 (abolished)	(m)	Lost the constituent parish of Ripponden, and the unparished areas of Brighouse, Elland, Halifax,Shelf, and Sowerby Bridge, to Calderdale registration district.

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