# Staincross Wapentake

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Former division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England

Wapentakes of the West Riding. Staincross is labelled 12 on the map.

**Staincross** was a [wapentake](/source/Wapentake), an administrative division (or ancient district),[1] in the historic county of the [West Riding of Yorkshire](/source/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire). It consisted of seven parishes, and included the towns of [Barnsley](/source/Barnsley), [Penistone](/source/Penistone), [Worsbrough](/source/Worsbrough) and [Hemsworth](/source/Hemsworth). The area almost corresponds with the modern day [Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley](/source/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Barnsley).

## History

The wapentake was named after the village of [Staincross](/source/Staincross) and included the [parishes](/source/Parish) of [Cawthorne](/source/Cawthorne), [Darton](/source/Darton), [Felkirk](/source/Felkirk), [Hemsworth](/source/Hemsworth), [High Hoyland](/source/High_Hoyland), [Penistone](/source/Penistone), [Royston](/source/Royston%2C_South_Yorkshire),[note 1] [Silkstone](/source/Silkstone) (including [Barnsley](/source/Barnsley)) and [Tankersley](/source/Tankersley%2C_South_Yorkshire) and parts of [Darfield](/source/Darfield%2C_South_Yorkshire).[2][3] Of the nine wapentakes in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Staincross had the lowest population density, which was recorded in 1867 as 27,089.[4]

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](/source/Ewcross) and [Osgoldcross](/source/Osgoldcross_Wapentake).[5] The name derives from the [Old Norse](/source/Old_Norse) of *stein-kross*, literally, *stone cross*.[6]

Originally located in the [West Riding of Yorkshire](/source/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire), most of area in Staincross Wapentake is now within the metropolitan county of [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire), and the rest is in [West Yorkshire](/source/West_Yorkshire).[7] The original boundaries were with the wapentakes of Agbrigg to the north, Osgoldcross to the east and Strafforth to the south and south east.[8] On the western edge, the wapentake bordered the Hamestan Hundred of Cheshire. It was estimated to have covered an area of 130 square miles (340 km2). According to Domesday records, a smaller portion, geographically removed from the rest of the wapentake, was located at the village of [Adlingfleet](/source/Adlingfleet) where the rivers [Ouse](/source/River_Ouse%2C_Yorkshire) and [Trent](/source/River_Trent) converge.[9]

Staincross Wapentake & districts

Much of the wapentake corresponds with the current [Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley](/source/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Barnsley) including towns and villages outside the Staincross wapentake, in the [Dearne Valley](/source/Dearne_Valley) such as [Wombwell](/source/Wombwell), [Hoyland Nether](/source/Hoyland), [Goldthorpe](/source/Goldthorpe), [Thurnscoe](/source/Thurnscoe) and [Bolton upon Dearne](/source/Bolton_upon_Dearne). Some villages and townships from the Staincross Wapentake are now in the post-1974 county of West Yorkshire namely [Denby Dale](/source/Denby_Dale), [Scissett](/source/Scissett), [Clayton West](/source/Clayton_West), [West Bretton](/source/West_Bretton), [Woolley](/source/Woolley%2C_West_Yorkshire), [Notton](/source/Notton), [South Hiendley](/source/South_Hiendley), Old Royston, [Ryhill](/source/Ryhill), [Havercroft](/source/Havercroft), and [Hemsworth](/source/Hemsworth) .

The [River Dearne](/source/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](/source/Church_of_All_Saints%2C_Silkstone), was sometimes known as the "Mother Church" of the wapentake.[10]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Names_2-0)** Sometimes spelt as *Roystone*

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Hallikeld Wap through time | Census tables with data for the Ancient District"](https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10075737). *www.visionofbritain.org.uk*. Retrieved 4 February 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Staincross | As described in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)"](https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/1787920). *www.visionofbritain.org.uk*. Retrieved 4 March 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** "The West Riding Divided". *Huddersfield Chronicle*. No. 590. Column A. 6 July 1881. p. 5.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** "The Triple Division of the West Riding". *Huddersfield Chronicle*. No. 897. Column A. 29 June 1867. p. 7.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Smith, A. H. (1961). *The place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Part 1*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 261. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [871561411](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/871561411).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Ekwall, Eilert (1947). *The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names* (3 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 415. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [12542596](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/12542596).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Chrystal, Paul (2017). *The Place Names of Yorkshire; Cities, Towns, Villages, Rivers and Dales, some Pubs too, in Praise of Yorkshire Ales* (1 ed.). Catrine: Stenlake. p. 100. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781840337532](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781840337532).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Langdale, Thomas (1822). *A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire*. Northallerton: J Langdale. p. 418. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [5211910](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/5211910).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Skinner, Alexis (2014). ["Impact and change: assembly practices in the Northern Danelaw"](http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10777/1/ImpactAndChange.pdf) (PDF). *etheses.dur.ac.uk*. p. 449. Retrieved 4 March 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Bower, Jane (9 November 2015). ["Wonderfully Made in Yorkshire comes to Barnsley church | The Diocese of Leeds, Church of England"](https://www.leeds.anglican.org/content/wonderfully-made-yorkshire-comes-barnsley-church). *www.leeds.anglican.org*. Retrieved 4 March 2020.

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