West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

    • Web
    • Email
    • Telephone
    • Address
      • West Yorkshire History Centre, 127 Kirkgate, Wakefield, WF1 1JG, England, UK
    • Opening Hours
      • Opening times and further information: https://www.wyjs.org.uk/archive-service/contact-us-and-opening-times/west-yorkshire-history-centre-wakefield-archive-service-opening-times-and-information/
    • Photographs Allowed
      • No
    • Accessible
      • No
    • Archival and Other Holdings
      • The Wakefield collections include:
      • County wide collections of West Yorkshire and the West Riding County Council
      • collection, dating from 1889-1974
      • • West Riding Quarter Sessions, dating from the early 1600s, which were responsible
      • for county administration and judicial functions
      • • The impressive West Riding Registry of Deeds, dating from 1704 to 1970. The
      • registry holds nearly 7 million individual deeds contained within 12,000 volumes
      • spread across 14 million pages
      • • Signifi cant law and order collections including West Yorkshire Police forces, Petty
      • Session (Magistrates’) Courts and prisons including HMP Wakefi eld
      • • Local authority records of Wakefi eld Metropolitan District Council
      • • Administrative county collections of local businesses, charities, voluntary
      • organisations and private individuals
      • • Family and estate records, including those of the Winn family within the Nostell
      • Priory Collection
      • • Coroners’ records and hospital records, including Bradford Royal Infi rmary and
      • Halifax General
      • • Important mental health collections, including those for Stanley Royd, Menston
      • High Royds and Storthes Hall Hospitals
      • • Wakefield Diocesan records, including baptisms, marriages and burials