Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SANDALL-MAGNA

SANDALL-MAGNA, a village, a township, and a parish, in Wakefield district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the river Calder, the Barnsley canal, and the North Midland railway, 2 miles S by E of Wakefield; contains many neat residences; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Wakefield. The township contains also five hamlets and a part, and comprises 1, 529 acres. Real property, £7, 830; of which £800 are in the canal. Pop., 1, 590. Houses, 337. The manor belongs to Sir L. M. S. Pilkington, Bart. S. Hall, S. House, S. Grange, Portobello, Castle-Grove, Brooke House, Woodlands, Manygates, Woolgreaves, and Pledwick House are chief residences. S. Castle was built in 1320, by the last Earl of Warren; went, at hisdeath, to the Crown; was, for some time, the residence of John Baliol as vassal of Edward III.; passed to Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, who, in 1460, fell in thebattle of Wakefield; became the residence of his son, the Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard III.; was dismantled, in 1646, by order of the parliament; and is now represented chiefly by some small fragments of grout-work, and some mounds of rubbish. Coal is workedat Standbridge. The parish contains also the townships of Crigglestone, Walton, and part of West Bretton. Acres, 7, 273. Pop. in 1851, 4,036; in 1861, 4, 214. Houses, 904. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £157.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is cruciform, and has a tower. The p. curacy of Chapelthorpe is a separate benefice. There are a New Connexion Methodist chapel, an endowed school with £250 a year, alms-houses with £18, and other charities £280. The Wakefield cemetery also is here.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wakefield RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Sandal Magna

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