Farnley, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Farnley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Leeds parish, W.R. Yorkshire, within Leeds parliamentary and municipal; borough, 4 miles SW by W of Leeds. There is a post and money order office under Leeds;. telegraph office, Wortley. Acreage, 2084; population, 3590. Farnley Hall is a chief residence. The inhabitants are employed in ironworks, mines, stone quarries, and the woollen manufacture. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon. The present church was built in 1885 on the site of an older one, and is a fine stone building in the Decorated style. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels and a cemetery.
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 | Leeds St Peter | |
Liberty | borough of Leeds | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Morley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Farnley 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 Farnley 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: