Honour of Pontefract
The Honour of Pontefract – or the Barony of
Pontefract – was a group of 204
small manors – an honour – which included
areas around Pontefract and also the townships of Halifax,
Brighouse, Elland, Greetland and Southowram.
The Honour was first granted to Ilbert de Lacy in 1067.
The lands had previously been owned by Gamel.
The Honour also included parts of Huddersfield, Bradford, Leeds, and
Holmfirth.
Some areas in the modern Calderdale district which were included in
the Honour were
- Allerton Almondbury Austonley Baildon Barkisland Bingley Cartworth
- Bierley Northowram Ovenden Rastrick Rawdon Rushworth Saddleworth
- Clayton Clifton Dalton Elland-cum-Greetland Erringden Esholt Farnley
- Heaton Heptonstall Hepworth Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse Holme Honley
- Horton Huddersfield Kirkheaton Langfield Lepton Lindley-cum-Quarmby
- Lingards Lockwood and Linthwaite Longwood Manningham Marsden
- Marsden-in-Huddersfield Meltham Midgley Netherthong Norland North
- Scammonden Shelf Shipley Skircoat Slaithwaite South Crossland
- Southowram Sowerby Soyland Stainland Stansfield Thornton Thurlstone
- Thurstonland Upperthong Wadsworth Warley Whitley Upper Wilsden
- Tyas Fixby Golcar Guiseley Halifax Hartshead Hawksworth Haworth
- Wooldale Wyke Yeadon
Around 1090, lord of the Honour of Pontefract, was
granted the Blackburn Hundred, aka the Honour of
Clitheroe.
The Honour of Pontefract was later granted to John
of Gaunt
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Malcolm Bull
2024
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