The manor of Stydd was acquired by the Knights Hospitaller and attached to their preceptory at Newland near Wakefield about 1265. It is indicated in the aquisition that there had been a hospital there for at least fifty years. By the 14thc it seems to have lost its function as a hospital and became attached to the church St Wilfrid a short walk away. Its 16thc font suggests that it was parochial by then.
The place Stydd seems to be generally synonymous with this hospital foundation, which otherwise can really be considered as the outskirts of Ribchester. The placename, meaning simply "place" or "farm", is also used at Yeaveley Preceptory in Derbyshire.