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Posted: Tue 04 Sep, 2012 12:05 pm
by The Parksider
On the 1851 OS map west of the wetherby road and just north of the coal road near Shadwell an area of land is attributed to Hunslet and Chapeltown?????The area seems to be called Birkby as a building of that name centers upon it.Why on earth is a piece of land outside Leeds appearing in the name of Leeds districts in 1851?
Posted: Tue 04 Sep, 2012 3:28 pm
by simong
Birkby was in the Hunslet Civil Registration District, which was the area outside the city boundary in the 1850s, and looks like it might have fallen in or on the edge of Chapel Allerton parish.
Posted: Wed 05 Sep, 2012 11:53 am
by The Parksider
simong wrote: Birkby was in the Hunslet Civil Registration District, which was the area outside the city boundary in the 1850s, and looks like it might have fallen in or on the edge of Chapel Allerton parish. Ta simon.However what does you mean by civil registration and what had Hunslet to do with it?
Posted: Wed 05 Sep, 2012 12:44 pm
by simong
As far as I can tell, registration districts were created for the Census, and possibly taxation in the 1830s, and the map I found on a ancestry.co.uk related site shows Hunslet RD as consisting of all the parishes around the urban part of the city of the time from 1845 until 1929. Here's a description from Genuki:
http://ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/hunslet.html - I can't find the map site now but I think it was extrapolated from that page.