Hemsworth
Sign in to saveHemsworth is a town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire it had a population of 13,311 at the 2001 census, with it increasing to 13,533 at the 2011 Census. The town lies 7½ miles from Barnsley, 7 miles from Pontefract and 9 miles from Wakefield.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.label_position
- top
- UK place.official_name
- Hemsworth
- UK place.population
- 13,533
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Hemsworth
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- City of Wakefield
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- West Yorkshire
- UK place.post_town
- PONTEFRACT
- UK place.postcode_district
- WF9
- UK place.postcode_area
- WF
- UK place.dial_code
- 01977
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SE430128
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Normanton and Hemsworth
- UK place.static_image_name
- Hemsworth, Archbishop Holgate Almshouses, with the Chapel of The Holy Cross. - geograph.org.uk - 227586.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Archbishop Holgate Almshouse
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Hemsworth is a town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire it had a population of 13,311 at the 2001 census, with it increasing to 13,533 at the 2011 Census. The town lies 7½ miles from Barnsley, 7 miles from Pontefract and 9 miles from Wakefield.
==History== thumb|upright=1.4|St Helen's Church, Hemsworth's parish church Historically Hemsworth is part of the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Wapentake of Staincross. The Wapentake almost corresponds with the current Barnsley Metropolitan Area, although a few settlements and townships within the Staincross Wapentake such as Hemsworth were put outside the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and now lie within the current West Yorkshire Metropolitan Area since April 1974.