- The above links take you to the first reference to this particular
version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant
gazetteer entry.
- Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as
William Camden and
Thomas Pennant
into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places.
Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
- References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included.
Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear
anywhere else.
Names for administrative units:
These names were used for units associated with
Birstall.
Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
| Name |
Unit Type |
Source |
|
BIRSTAL
|
Local Government District
(UD)
|
1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 8, 'Administrative Counties, Urban Districts and Rural Districts - Persons, Males and Females at each year of age under 21 and in quinquennial age-groups in each Administrative County (inclusive and exclusive of associated County Boroughs) and in the aggregates of Urban Districts, of County Boroughs and of Rural districts. Also Males and Females at these ages in each County Borough, Municipal Borough, other Urban District and Rural District, 1911'.
|
|
Parish-level Unit
(CP)
|
1901 Census of England and Wales, Table 12, 'Registration County, Districts, and Sub-Districts, with their Constituent Civil Parishes - Area; Houses and Population 1891 and 1901, and Separate Occupiers 1901'.
|
|
Parish-level Unit
(CP/AP)
|
1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
|
|
Sanitary District
(USD)
|
F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 781.
|
|
BIRSTALL
|
Ecclesiastical Parish
(EP)
|
F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 515.
|
|
Local Government District
(UD)
|
F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 790.
|
|
Parish-level Unit
(CP/AP)
|
F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 515.
|
|
Parish-level Unit
(CP)
|
F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 515.
|
|
Rural Deanery
|
F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 870.
|
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with
Birstall, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place.
They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
- For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include
parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name
of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as
another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
- Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts
had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement.
As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the
last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for
a completely different place will appear on this page.
- Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement
it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit.
This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas,
one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were
in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears,
but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Birstall,
or that our references are to the first usage of the names.
Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription
errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the
historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census
officials mis-hearing local names.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth,
History of Birstall, in Kirklees and West Riding | Place names,
A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/997/names
Date accessed: 30th October 2024
A vision of Britain through time