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In 1822, the Parish of SANDAL MAGNA contained:
"SANDAL MAGNA, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield, 2 miles from Wakefield, 8 from Barnsley, 9 from Pontefract, 30 from York. Pop. 888. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Helen, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, ~£13. 7s. 8d. p.r. £122. 17s. 2d. Patron, the King.
The Castle here, was built by John, Earl of Warren, about the year 1320. In the reign of Edward III. Edward Baliol resided here, while an army was raising to establish him on the throne of Scotland. This Castle afterwards became the property of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, who was slain in a great battle, fought near this place, in the year 1460. The last siege it sustained was in the civil wars of Charles I.; Col. Bonivant held it for the King, and surrendered to the arms of Parliament, in the month of October, 1645. In the following year it was dismantled, by the order of Parliament.
Thomas Zouch, D.D. a man of considerable erudition, was born here in 1737. A collection of his works, with a memoir by the Rev. Thomas Wrangham, was published in 1820.
Here is a Free School for eight Boys, founded by the late Rev. Doctor Zouch, who endowed it with £10. per annum, and a House and Garden."
Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.
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[Description(s) from Langdale's Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire. (1822)]
- for details on symbols etc., please see the above Dictionary.
Directories
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Baines's Directory of 1822.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in White's Directory of 1887.
Gazetteers
- There is further information about this parish from White's General and Commercial Directory of Wakefield, Horbury, Alverthorpe, Sandal Magna, Stanley and Normanton - 1887
History
- Angela Petyt has written a History of the parish of Sandal Magna.
Societies
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
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[Last updated at 15.07 on Thursday, 14 June 2001, by Colin Hinson. ©2000]