Pontefract Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/PLU)

Statistics

Population

Population

Densities and rates of growth. Age structure: concentrations of young people, and of the old.
Industry

Industry

How people made their living: identifying farming communities, pit villages, mill towns and so on.
Life & Death

Life & Death

Numbers of babies born. Deaths, especially infant deaths. Causes of death by age and gender.
Work & Poverty

Work & Poverty

Unemployment rates and poor relief. What proportions of men and of women did paid work?
Housing

Housing

Numbers of houses. Overcrowding: persons per room. Amenities: central heating, baths and WCs.
Birthplace & Religion

Birthplace & Religion

Numbers going to church, and the kinds of churches they went to. The different religions of modern Britain.
Place marker map of Great Britain and Ireland

The unit has had the following statuses:

Status Abbreviation Start End Authority
Registration District RegD     1911 Census of England and Wales, Population tables 2, Table 5 , 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'
Poor Law Union PLU 1862   F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991) Permission granted to project.

This unit contained the following units:

Name Type Start End Authority
CASTLEFORD Registration sub-District     1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
KIPPAX Registration sub-District   23 Aug 1869 Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
KNOTTINGLEY Registration sub-District     1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
PONTEFRACT Registration sub-District     1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
WHITLEY Registration sub-District     1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
ACKTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 502.
BALNE CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 509.
BEAL OR BEAGHALL CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 512.
BIRKIN CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 515.
BROTHERTON CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 522.
BURTON SALMON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 524.
BYRAM CUM POOLE CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1862 1891 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 524.
BYRAM CUM SUTTON CP Parish-level Unit 1891 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 524.
CARLETON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 525.
CASTLEFORD AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 526.
CRIDING STUBBS CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 532.
DARRINGTON CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 534.
EAST HARDWICK Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 553.
EGGBOROUGH CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 539.
FAIRBURN Ch/CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 542.
FEATHERSTONE Tn/AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 543.
FERRY FRYSTON AP Parish-level Unit 1869   F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 546.
FERRY FRYSTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit   1930 1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.
GLASS HOUGHTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 548.
HECK Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 556.
HENSALL Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 557.
HILLAM Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 559.
KELLINGTON CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 566.
KNOTTINGLEY CP/Ch Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 571.
LEDSTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 soon after 1869 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 574.
METHLEY CP/AP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MONK FRYSTON CP/Ch Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 546.
MONKHILL CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1862 1892 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 584.
PONTEFRACT AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 593.
PONTEFRACT PARK CP/ExP Parish-level Unit 1869 1920 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 593.
PURSTON JAGLIN CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 594.
SNYDALE CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 609.
STAPLETON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 612.
SUTTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1891 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 614.
TANSHELF CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1862 1920 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 615.
WATER FRYSTONE Tn Parish-level Unit     1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
WHITLEY Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 626.
WHITWOOD Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1869 01 Apr 1938 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 626.
WOMERSLEY CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1862 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 628.

This unit was part of the following units:

Name Type Start End Authority
WEST RIDING Poor Law/Registration County 1850   F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 778.
WEST RIDING Administrative County     Ministry of Health, Persons in Receipt of Poor-Law Relief (England and Wales) (H.M.S.O.)

This unit was affected by the following changes:

Date Type of change Other unit involved Area transferred Authority
20 May 1862 was reduced to create CASTLEFORD RegD Kippax SD, and parishes of Ferry-Frystone and Pontefract Park, townships of Beaghall, Brotherton, Burton Salmon, South Milford, Sutton, Ackton, Carlton, Caslteford, Darrington, Featherstone, Glass Houghton, Purston Jaglin, and Whitwood   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
26 Mar 1862 was reduced to enlarge TADCASTER RegD/PLU Townships of Newthorpe, Huddleston and Lumby   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
01 Jan 1868 was enlarged by gaining part of CASTLEFORD RegD SDs of Caslteford and Kippax   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
23 Aug 1869 was enlarged by the abolition of CASTLEFORD RegD Parish of Ferry-Frystone, townships of Beaghall, Brotherton, Burton, Salmon, Sutton, Cartleton, Darrington, Featherstone, and Preston Jaglin reunited to Pontefract   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
23 Aug 1869 was reduced to enlarge TADCASTER RegD/PLU The parish of Garforth and the townships of South Milford, Allerton Bywater, Great and Little Preston, Kippax, Ledsham, Ledstone, and Micklefield transferred. Many of these   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)

Boundary Map of Pontefract Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/PLU)

If the boundaries of the Poor Law Union/Reg. District changed over time, this map will show all the different boundaries.

Maps Census reports

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Pontefract Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/PLU) through time, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10220889

Date accessed: 08th April 2026