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| | GENUKI: Rastrick History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | RASTRICK, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield, 4 miles from Halifax, 5 from Huddersfield. |
 | | Here was a Chapel, as early as 1411, which was taken down and handsomely re built, about six and thirty years ago. |
 | | By an inquest, taken in 1284, it appears that the village of Rastrick was rated at thirteen shillings, and contained only six freemen; the rest were, according to that inquest, "Nativi tenentes villains, or bondsmen:" such as were at the arbitrary pleasure of the Lord, both in their persons, children, and goods. |
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