Hello Bill and List The index to the transcript of Almondbury PRs 1598-1652 lists 'Yates, Yetam, Yateholm' together, indicating that these are variant spellings of the same place. As Andy said, Almondbury was a huge parish, so to prevent people having to walk too many miles to church, there were in the parish five 'Chapels of Ease' (not to be confused with later non-conformist chapels), at Holmfirth, Meltham, Honley, Marsden and Slaithwaite, which served the population for all purposes until Hardwicke's Marriage Act in 1754, when marriages had to take place only in the main parish church, though burials and christenings continued at the chapels of ease. Holmfirth is complicated by the fact that part of Holmfirth lies in Kirkburton parish, and Marsden lies partly in Huddersfield parish.The chapel at Slaithwaite includes many entries for people living in Linthwaite, but I think the township of Slaithwaite itself was in Huddersfield Parish, which may explain why the registers for Slaithwaite chapel do not seem to include any people living in Slaithwaite! Please ask further questions if that lot isn't clear- (and I can see why it wouldn't be!) After the Church Building Act of 1818 (the 'Million Act), larger parishes like Almondbury gradually began to be divided into smaller parishes, each with their own church. The quotation Andy was talking about refers to John Wesley's visit to Huddersfield in 1757, when he said 'I never saw a wilder people in England'. regards, Lesley