Esholt, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Esholt, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Oatley parish, W.R. Yorkshire, on the river Aire, near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 5½ miles N of Bradford, with a station on the M.R., and a post office under Shipley; money order and telegraph office, Baildon. The township comprises 691 acres; population, 305; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Hawksworth, 468. A Cistercian nunnery was founded here, in the 12th century, by Simon de Ward, went to the Calver-leys, and passed to the Stanbfields. Esholt Hall, a splendid modern mansion, standing in a park of 100 acres, the seat of Maj.-Gen. W. H. Crompton Stansfield (who is lord of the manor) now occupies the nunnery's site. The parish was constituted in 1854. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Hawksworth, in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £140 with residence. The church is recent, and there is a chapel for Wesleyans, a reading room, and a school.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Otley | |
Poor Law union | Carlton | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Skyrack |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Esholt from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Esholt are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: