Greetland, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Greetland, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Halifax parish, W.R. Yorkshire. The village stands 3 miles SSW of Halifax, and has a station on the L. & Y.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Halifax. The ecclesiastical parish is part of the township of Elland-cum-Greetland. Population, 1627. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Halifax. The church was built in 1860, consists of nave, chancel, transept, aisle, and porch, and has a tower with pinnacles, and is in a mixed Gothic style. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Free Methodist chapels.
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 Greetland 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: