{{Short description|Former division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England}} {{Use British English|date=March 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} [[File:Wapentakes of the West Riding of Yorkshire.png|thumb|right|Wapentakes of the West Riding. Staincross is labelled 12 on the map.]] '''Staincross''' was a [[wapentake]], an administrative division (or ancient district),<ref>{{cite web |title=Hallikeld Wap through time {{!}} Census tables with data for the Ancient District |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10075737 |website=www.visionofbritain.org.uk |accessdate=4 February 2020}}</ref> in the historic county of the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. It consisted of seven parishes, and included the towns of [[Barnsley]], [[Penistone]], [[Worsbrough]] and [[Hemsworth]]. The area almost corresponds with the modern day [[Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley]].
==History== The wapentake was named after the village of [[Staincross]] and included the [[parish]]es of [[Cawthorne]], [[Darton]], [[Felkirk]], [[Hemsworth]], [[High Hoyland]], [[Penistone]], [[Royston, South Yorkshire|Royston]],{{#tag:ref|Sometimes spelt as ''Roystone''|name=Names|group=note}} [[Silkstone]] (including [[Barnsley]]) and [[Tankersley, South Yorkshire|Tankersley]] and parts of [[Darfield, South Yorkshire|Darfield]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Staincross {{!}} As described in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887) |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/1787920 |website=www.visionofbritain.org.uk |accessdate=4 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The West Riding Divided |work=Huddersfield Chronicle |issue=590 |date=6 July 1881 |location=Column A |page=5}}</ref> Of the nine wapentakes in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Staincross had the lowest population density, which was recorded in 1867 as 27,089.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Triple Division of the West Riding |work=Huddersfield Chronicle |issue=897 |date=29 June 1867 |location=Column A |page=7}}</ref>
The original meeting place of the wapentake is believed to have been in, or near, to the village of Staincross, similar to the wapentakes at [[Ewcross]] and [[Osgoldcross Wapentake|Osgoldcross]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=A. H. |title=The place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Part 1 |date=1961 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |page=261|oclc=871561411}}</ref> The name derives from the [[Old Norse]] of ''stein-kross'', literally, ''stone cross''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1947 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |oclc=12542596 |page=415 |edition=3}}</ref>
Originally located in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], most of area in Staincross Wapentake is now within the metropolitan county of [[South Yorkshire]], and the rest is in [[West Yorkshire]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chrystal|first1=Paul|title=The Place Names of Yorkshire; Cities, Towns, Villages, Rivers and Dales, some Pubs too, in Praise of Yorkshire Ales|date=2017|publisher=Stenlake|location=Catrine| isbn=9781840337532|page=100|edition=1}}</ref> The original boundaries were with the wapentakes of Agbrigg to the north, Osgoldcross to the east and Strafforth to the south and south east.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Langdale |first1=Thomas |title=A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire |date=1822 |publisher=J Langdale |location=Northallerton |page=418|oclc=5211910}}</ref> On the western edge, the wapentake bordered the Hamestan Hundred of Cheshire. It was estimated to have covered an area of {{convert|340|km2|order=flip}}. According to Domesday records, a smaller portion, geographically removed from the rest of the wapentake, was located at the village of [[Adlingfleet]] where the rivers [[River Ouse, Yorkshire|Ouse]] and [[River Trent|Trent]] converge.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Skinner |first1=Alexis |title=Impact and change: assembly practices in the Northern Danelaw |url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10777/1/ImpactAndChange.pdf |website=etheses.dur.ac.uk |accessdate=4 March 2020 |page=449 |format=PDF |date=2014}}</ref> [[File:Staincross Wapentake & districts.jpg|thumb|Staincross Wapentake & districts]] Much of the wapentake corresponds with the current [[Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley]] including towns and villages outside the Staincross wapentake, in the [[Dearne Valley]] such as [[Wombwell]], [[Hoyland|Hoyland Nether]], [[Goldthorpe]], [[Thurnscoe]] and [[Bolton upon Dearne]]. Some villages and townships from the Staincross Wapentake are now in the post-1974 county of West Yorkshire namely [[Denby Dale]], [[Scissett]], [[Clayton West]], [[West Bretton]], [[Woolley, West Yorkshire|Woolley]], [[Notton]], [[South Hiendley]], Old Royston, [[Ryhill]], [[Havercroft]], and [[Hemsworth]] .
The [[River Dearne]] ran from the north west to the south east of the wapentake.
Although some distance from the village of Staincross, the [[Church of All Saints, Silkstone]], was sometimes known as the "Mother Church" of the wapentake.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bower |first1=Jane |title=Wonderfully Made in Yorkshire comes to Barnsley church {{!}} The Diocese of Leeds, Church of England |url=https://www.leeds.anglican.org/content/wonderfully-made-yorkshire-comes-barnsley-church |accessdate=4 March 2020 |work=www.leeds.anglican.org |date=9 November 2015}}</ref>
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