CHEVET is a small township in the southern division of the Hiding, parish of Royston, wapentake of Staincross, union of Wakefield, county court district of Barnsley, 4 miles south from Wakefield and 6 north-east from Barnsley. Chevet Hall is the seat of Sir Lionel Milborne Swinnerton Pilkington bart. who owns the entire township: his mansion stands in a well-wooded park, rising in one part to a lofty bill, under which is a tunnel of the Midland Railway.

Besides the hall, this township contains only three good farmhouses and a few cottages. Sir Lionel Pilkington is lord of the manor. The soil is a good loam; subsoil, a mixed “bind,” which lies on the “Chevet” rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The population is (1871) 109; area, 839 acres; rateable value, £1,706.