Staincross Wapentake

Staincross was a Wapentake, which is an administrative division (or ancient district),[1] in the historic county of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

[2][3] Of the nine wapentakes in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Staincross typically had the lowest population density, which was recorded in 1867 as 27,089.

It was estimated to have covered an area of 130 square miles (340 km2), although, according to Domesday records, a smaller portion, geographically removed from the rest of the wapentake, was located at the village of Adlingfleet where the rivers Ouse and Trent converge.

[9] Much of the Wapentake corresponds with the current Barnsley Metropolitan Area, with towns outside the Staincross wapentake, in the Dearne Valley included, such as Wombwell, Hoyland Nether, Goldthorpe, Thurnscoe, Bolton on Dearne etc,.

The River Dearne ran from the north west to the south east of the Wapentake.