Sandal Magna or Sandal is a suburb of
Wakefield,
West Yorkshire, England with a population in 2001 of 5,432. An ancient
settlement, it is the site of
Sandal Castle and is mentioned in the
Domesday Book. It is south from Wakefield, north of
Barnsley
Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...
.
The
Battle of Wakefield
The Battle of Wakefield took place in Sandal Magna near Wakefield in northern England, on 30 December 1460. It was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses. The opposing forces were an army led by nobles loyal to the captive King Henry VI of ...
was fought here in the 15th century during the
Wars of the Roses.
History
Toponymy
The name Sandal derives from the
Early Scandinavian ' meaning sand or gravel and ', a meadow.
Early history
In the
Domesday Book of 1086 Sandal is recorded as a ' (a village where barley was grown) in Wachefeld (Wakefield) where there was a church with a priest. The church was on the site of the present church of St Helen.
William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey
William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (died 11 May 1138) was the son of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey and his first wife Gundred. He was more often referred to as ''Earl Warenne'' or ''Earl of Warenne'' than as Earl of Surrey.G. E. Co ...
(1081–1138) was granted the Sandal estates in 1107 and began the building of Sandal Castle which became the baronial seat of the lords of the manor of Wakefield.
In 1460, during the Wars of the Roses, the
Duke of York
Duke of York is a title of nobility in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Since the 15th century, it has, when granted, usually been given to the second son of English (later British) monarchs. The equivalent title in the Scottish peerage was Du ...
was killed on 30 December in the Battle of Wakefield between Sandal Castle and St Helens Church.
There are records of mining for coal and quarrying for stone in the 14th century.
The
highwayman
A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers. This type of thief usually travelled and robbed by horse as compared to a footpad who travelled and robbed on foot; mounted highwaymen were widely considered to be socially superior to footp ...
,
John Nevison was arrested on 6 March 1684 at the Three Houses Inn and tried for the murder of Darcy Fletcher, a constable who had tried to arrest him near Howley Hall at Soothill in
Batley
Batley is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. Batley lies south-west of Leeds, north-west of Wakefield and Dewsbury, south-east of Bradford and north-east of Huddersfield. Batley is part of the ...
.
Geography
Sandal, situated on the south side of the
River Calder on the road from Wakefield to Barnsley, covers .
It is from Wakefield, from Barnsley, from Pontefract, from Leeds, from Bradford, from Sheffield, and from York. The main road through Sandal is the
A61 Wakefield to Barnsley road.
''Location grid''
Governance
Sandal was anciently a parish town in the Agbrigg Division of the
wapentake of
Agbrigg and Morley
Agbrigg and Morley was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The main purpose of the wapentake was the administration of justice by a local court. At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, Agbrigg and Morley were separate wape ...
in the liberty of Wakefield,
West Riding of Yorkshire.
Following the
Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, Sandal Magna became one of the 17 constituent parishes of the Wakefield
Poor Law Union formed in 1837.
Religion
Sandal Magna's church is dedicated to
St. Helen, the mother of
Constantine the Great
Constantine I ( , ; la, Flavius Valerius Constantinus, ; ; 27 February 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337, the first one to Constantine the Great and Christianity, convert to Christiani ...
. At the time of the
Norman Conquest Sandal Church was a possession of the crown. The Saxon church was recorded as one of two churches in the Wakefield manor in the
Domesday Book of 1086.
In about 1150 the first church was replaced by a second church in the shape of a
Latin cross by Earl Warenne of Sandal Castle. It was enlarged in about 1180 and almost completely rebuilt in the first half of the 14th century. The church was altered and extended after 1505 and the present church extensively restored and enlarged in 1872.
Transportation
The
Sandal and Agbrigg railway station on the
Wakefield line (part of the
West Yorkshire Metro) with services operated by
Northern
Northern may refer to the following:
Geography
* North, a point in direction
* Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe
* Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States
* Northern Province, Sri Lanka
* Northern Range, a ra ...
is at the northeast side of the neighbourhood and serves Sandal and the adjacent suburb of
Agbrigg.
Amenities
Largely a residential area, its amenities include a library, schools, the
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
church of St Helen, a
Methodist church and an Asda supermarket.
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References
Notes
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