West Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire

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Chapman code

The Chapman code for West Riding of Yorkshire is WRY.
Chapman codes are used in genealogy as a short data code for administrative areas, such as county and country names.

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Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.

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Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online:

• Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
• Leeds Mercury
• Yorkshire Evening Post
• Huddersfield Chronicle
• Leeds Intelligencer
• Bradford Observer
• Bradford Daily Telegraph

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Parishes & places

Abbeydale Aberford Acaster Selby Ackton with Loscoe Grange Ackworth Acomb Addingham Adel Adlingfleet Admergill and Brogden Adwalton or Adderton Adwick le Street Adwick upon Dearne Agbrigg Agbrigg and Morley Airton Aismunderby with Bondgate Aldborough Aldfield Allerton Bywater Allerton Chapel or Chapel Allerton Allerton Mauleverer Almholme Almondsbury Altofts Alverthorpe Alwoodley Ambler Thorn Amerdale Angram Anston cum Membris Apperley Bridge Appleton Nun Appleton Roebuck Appletreewick Ardsley Arkendale Arksey Armitage Bridge Armthorpe Arncliffe Arthington Askham Richard or West Askham Askwith cum Snowden Astley Aston with Aughton Attercliffe Auckley or Awkley Aughton Austerfield Austhorpe Austonley Austwick Azerley Badsworth Baildon Bailiff Bridge Balby and Hexthorpe Balne Bank Newton Barden Bardsey Barkisland Barkston Ash Barley Hall Barlow or Barley Barmbrough Barnbow Barnby Basin and Barnby Furnace Barnby upon Don Barnoldswick Barnsdale Barnside Barnsley Barnsley Canal Barugh Barwick in Elmet Bashall Eaves Batley Batley Carr Battrix Battyeford Bawtry Beaghall or Beal Beamsley Bearswood Green Beckfoot Beckwithshaw Bedgreave Beeston Beeston Hill Beggarmonds Bell Busk Bell Houses Ben Rhydding Bentham Berry Brow Bessecar Bewerley Bickerton Bierley Bierley, North Biggin Bilbrough Bilham Billingley Bilton Bilton with Harrogate Bingley Bircham Cliffe or Birchencliffe Birdwell Birkby Birkenshaw Birkin Birkwith Birkwood Birley Carr Birstall Birstall Drub Birstwith Bishop Monkton Bishop Thornton Bishopthorpe Bishopton Blackburn Blacker (Darton) Blacker (Worsbrough) Blackmoor Foot Bland Blaxton or Blakestone Blubberhouses Bodies Bogthorn Bolsterstone Bolton Bolton Abbey Bolton Brow Bolton by Bolland Bolton upon Dearne Bordley Boroughbridge Boston Spa Bottom Boat Bouthwaite Bowling Bracewell Brackenhill Bradfield Bradford Bradgate Bradholme Bradley Bradley Mills Bradleys Both, or Lower and Upper Bradley Bradshaw Braisty Wood Braithwaite Braithwaite (Keighley) Braithwell Bramham Bramhope Bramley Bramley (Braithwell) Bramley Head Brampton Bierlow Brampton en le Morthen Bramwith, Sand Branton Brayton Brearly Brearton Bretton, Monk Bridge Hewick Bridgehouses Brierley Briestfield Brighouse Brightholmlee Brightside Brimham Brinsworth Britannia Broadcarr Broadoak Green Broadroyd Head Brockholes Brodsworth Brogden Bromley Brookhouse Brotherton Broughton in Airedale Brownhill Brownsholme or Browsholme Bruntcliffe Brunthwaite Buckden Burghwallis Burley Burley in Wharfedale Burn Burncross Burnsall Burnt Yates Burton Grange Burton in Lonsdale Burton Leonard Burton Salmon Buslingthorpe Buttershaw Butterthwaite Button Hill Byram cum Sutton Cadeby Calton Calverley Calverley with Farsley Camblesforth Campsall Can Canklow Cantley Carbrook Carcroft Carlcoates Carleton Carleton or Carleton in Craven Carleton or Carlton Carlinghow Carlton Carlton (Guiseley) Carr Green Carr Lane Carsick Hill Carter Knowle Cartworth Castle Hill Side Castleberg Castleford Castley Catcliffe Catherine Slack Cattal Catterick Force Catterton Cautley with Dowbiggin Cawood Cawthorne Cayton with South Stainley Chapel Fold Chapel le Dale Chapelthorpe Chapeltown Charlestown Chellow Cherry Tree Hill Chevet Chickenley Chidswell Church Fenton Churwell Clapdale Clapham with Newby Clareton with Coneythorpe Clark Green Claro Clays Clayton Clayton Heights Clayton with Frickley Cleckheaton Cliff Bridge Clifford Clifford cum Boston Clifton Clifton (Conisbrough) Clifton with Norwood Clint Closehouse Clotherholme Coates Coates (Thurgoland) Cock Cockhill Cold Coniston Coldcotes Coley Coley Lane Collingham Colnbridge or Colne Bridge Colne Valley Colton Colton (Bolton Percy) Coneythorpe and Clareton Conisbrough Conistone with Kilnsey Cononley Cookridge Cooper Bridge Copgrove Copley Copmanthorpe Copt Hewick Corton Wood Cottingley Cowgill Cowick Cowling Cowms Cowthorpe Crabtree Cracoe Cragg Vale Crane Moor Craven Cray Cridling Stubbs Crigglestone Cringles Crofton Crookes Crosland Moor Crosley Hall Cross Flats Cross Roads Crossbills Crossgates Crosspool Crosstone, Cross Stone, or Croston Cudworth Cullingworth Cumberworth Cusworth Cutler Height Dacre Daisy Hill Dale Head Dallowgill Dalton (Kirkheaton) Dalton (Rotherham) Damems Darfield Darley Darnall Darrington Darton Daw Green Dean House Deepcar Deepdale (Buckden) Deepdale (Dent) Deighton Delph Denaby Denby Denby Dale Denholme Dent Denton Dewsbury Dewsbury Moor Diggle Dinnington Dirtcar Dobbin Hill Dobcross Dockroyd Dod Lee Dodworth Dogley Bar Dogley Lane Dolebank Doncaster Doncaster Bridgend Dovecliffe Dowbiggin Draughton Drax Drebley Drighlington Dringhouses Dropping Well Dryhill Dudley Hill Dunford Bridge Dungworth Dunkeswick Dunscroft Dunsforth Dunsforth with Upper Branton Dunsup Earby Earls Heaton East Ardsley East Haddlesey East Halton East Hardwicke East Rigton Eastwood (Halifax) Eastwood (Keighley) Eastwood (Rotherham) Eavestone Ecclesall-Bierlow Ecclesfield Eccleshill Ecklands Edlington Eggbrough Eldroth Eldwick Elland Ellers Elm Elm Green Elmsall Elsecar Elslack Embsay with Eastby Emley or Elmley Endcliffe Woods Erringden Esholt Eshton Exley Head Fairburn Fairest Fairweather Green Famhill Famley Far Headingley Farnham Farnley Farnley Hey Farnley Tyas Farsley Fartown Featherstone Feizor Felkirk Fell Lane Fellbeck or Felbeck Felliscliffe Fenay Bridge Fenwick Ferrensby or Femsby Ferrybridge Fewston Field Head Finkle Street Finningley Firbeck Fishlake Fixby Flanshaw Flashy with Winterburn Flaxby Flockton Flushdyke Fockerby Follifoot Folly Hall Foolstone Forest Becks Fosterhouses Foulby, Nostell, and Huntwick Fountains Abbey Fountains Earth Foxup Friendly Friezland Frizinghall or Frizingley Frostrow Fulneck Fulwood Galphay Garforth Gargrave Garsdale Gateforth

Gatekirk Cave Gatewood Gawler Gawthorpe (Dewsbury) Gawthorpe (Lepton) Gearstones Giggleswick Gildersome Gildersome Street Gildingwells Gilmoor Gilstead Gingle Pot Gipton Girlington Gisburn Gisburn Forest Givendale Glass Houghton Gleadless Glusburn Golcar Goldsborough Goldthorpe Gomersal Goole Gordale Scar Gowdall Grafton Grange Lane Grange Moor Grantley Grassington Greasbrough Great and Little Preston Great Houghton Great Mitton Great Ouseburn Great Ribston Great Timble Green Green Grove Green Hammerton Greenfield Greenhow Hill Greenland Greenoside or Grenoside Greetland Grewelthorpe Greystones Grillbeck Grimesthorpe Grimethorpe Grimston Grindleton Guilthwaite Guiseley or Guisley Gunthwaite Haddlesey Hagg Haigh Hailing Hainworth Haldenby Halifax Hallam Gate Hallamshire Hallas Bridge Halton Halton Gill Hambleton Hammerton Hamphall Stubbs Hampole Hampsthwaite Handsworth Hanging Heaton Hanlith Harden Hardgate Harehill (Keighley) Harehill (Potter Newton) Harewood Harley Wood Harlington Harrogate Harthill with Woodall Hartlington Hartshead Hartshead Moor Hartwith with Winsley Hatfield Hatfield Woodhouse Hattermire or Attermyre Haugh, Lower and Upper Haverah Park Havercroft (Batley) Havercroft (Felkirk) Hawkswick Hawksworth Haworth Hay Green Hayshaw Haywood Hazlehead Bridge Hazlewood and Storiths Headingley Healaugh Healey Heath Heaton Hebden Heck or Great Heck Heckmondwike Hedley Heeley Heights Hellaby Hellifield Helm Hemingfield Hemsworth Hensall Henshaw Heptonstall Hepworth Hermit Hill Herringthorpe Hesleden Hesley Hessay Hessle Hetton Hickleton High and Low Bishopside High Bowland Forest High Burton High Flatts High Green High Hoyland High Melton Higham Highfield Highgate Lane Hill Foot Hill Top (Kimberworth) Hill Top (Lindley) Hill Top (North Bierley) Hillaym Himtwiclz cum Foulby and Nostell Hipperholme Hirst, Lower and Upper Holbeck Holdsworth (Bradfield) Holdsworth (Bradshaw) Holliscroft Holme Holme (Owston) Holmebridge Holmes Holmfirth Holywell Green Honley Hoober Hoober (Wentworth) Hood Green Hood Hill Hook Hooton Levett Hooton Pagnell Hooton Roberts Hopton, Upper Horbury Horbury Bridge Horsforth Horton Horton (Gisburn) Horton in Ribblesdale Howbrook Howden dough Howgill (Rimmington) Howgrave Howley Hall Hoyland Swaine Hubberholme Huddersfield Huddleston and Lumby Hungate Hunshelf Hunslet or Hunfleet Hunsmgore Hunsworth Huthwaite Hutt Green Hutton Wandesley Icklea Ickomshaw Idle Ilkley Illingworth Ingbirchworth Ingerthorpe Ingleton Ingmanthorpe Ingrow Intake Jordan Dam Jump Kearby with Netherby Keighley Kelbrook Kellingley Kellington Kessmoor Keswick, East Kettlesing Kettlewell Kexborough Kildwick Killingbeck Killinghall Kilnhurst Kilnsey Kimberworth Kingcross Kingsdale Kingston Place Kippax Kirby Hall Kirk Bramwith Kirk Deighton Kirk Hammerton Kirkburton Kirkby cum Milford Kirkby Malham Kirkby Malzeard Kirkby Overblow Kirkham Gate Kirkheaton Kirkhouse Green Kirklees Kirkstall Kirkthorpe Kirkthwaite Kiveton Park Knapton Knaresborough Knostrop Knottingley Knowl Knowle Laister Dyke Laiths, Low Lake Lock Langbar Langcliffe Langfield Langsett Langthwaite Lastingham Latham Laughton en le Morthen Laverton Lawkland Laycock Leadhall or Lead Leathley Ledsham Ledstone Lee Brook Lee, White Leeds Leefair Lenacre Lepton Letwell Levels Levels, High and Low Leventhorpe or Leaventhorpe Levett Hagg Lidgate Lidget Green Lightcliffe Lindholme Lindley Lindley (Otley) Lindrick Linfit Lane Lingards Lingbob Lings Lingwell Gate Linthwaite Linton Linton (Spofforth) Little Common Little Fenton Little Houghton Little London Little Ouseburn Little Ribston Little Smeaton Little Timble Littlethorpe Littletown Litton Liversedge Lob Wood Lockwood Lodge Lofthouse Lofthouse (Fountains Earth) Lofthouse (Harewood) Lofthouse Gate Long Drax Long Marston Long Preston Longwood Lordland, North and South Lothersdale Lotherton cum Aberford Loversal Low Bowland Forest Lower Dunsforth Lower Whitley Lowfold Lowmoor Luddenden Luddendenioot Lydgate Lydgate Lydgate Machon Bank Malham Malham Moor Malin Bridge Maltby Manningham Manston Mapplewell Markingfield Hall Markington Marr Marsden Marsh with Paddock Martin Top Marton cum Grafton Marton in Craven Masborough Masongill Mauds Bridge Meadow Hall Meanwood Meerbeck Meltham Meltham Mills Mensthorpe Menston Menwith with Darley Methley Methley Junction Mexborough Micklebring Micklefield Micklegate Micklethwaite (Bingley) Micklethwaite (Collingham) Mickley Middlesmoor Middlestone Middlethorpe Middleton (Cowling) Middleton (Ilkley) Middleton (Rothwell) Middop or Midhope Midgley Midgley (Shitlington) Midhope Milby Milford Junction Mill Bridge Mill House (Darfield) Mill Houses Millhouse (Thurlstone) Millshaw Milnsbridge Milnthorpe or Milthorp Minskip Mirfield Mixenden Mold Green Monk Fryston Monkhill Moor Allerton Moor Ends Moor Head Moor Lane Moor Monkton Moor Top Moorfields Moorgate Moorhouse Moorside Moorthorpe Moorwood Morley Morthen Mortomley Morton, East and West Morwick Moss Mount Pellon Mount Tabor Mulwith Mytholmroyd Naburn Nappa Neepsend Nesfield with Langbar Nether Green Nether Hallam Nether Hoyland Nether Poppleton Nether Thong Netherfold Nethershire Netherthorpe Netherton (South Crossland) Netherton (Thornhill) New Leeds New Wortley New York Newall with Clifton Newby Newby (Weeton) Newby with Mulwith Newfield Green Newland Newland with Woodhouse Moor Newlay Newmill Newsam Green Newsholme Newsholme or Newsome Newsome Newthorpe Newton (Ledsham) Newton (Slaidburn) Newton (Sprotbrough) Newton (Wakefield) Newton Kyme Newtown Nidd Bridge Nidd or Nydd Norland or Northland Normanton North and South Westgate North Deighton North Milford North Pastures North Rigton North Stainley Northowram Norton Norwood Norwood End Norwood Green Nostel or Nostell Notton Nun Monkton Nunwick with Howgrave Nursery Oakenshaw Oakes Oakes Green Oakworth Ockany or Occaney Odsall Moor Oglethorpe

Old Blill Old Lindley Old Mill Oldfield Onesacre Orgreave Osgoldcross Parliamentary Division Osmondthorpe Ossett Otley Otterburn Oughtibridge Oulton Ousefleet Ouselthwaite Outershaw Outlane Outwood Ouzlewell Green Ovenden Owlerton Owston Oxenhope Oxspring Oxton Ozendyke or Ossendyke Paddock Paddock (Kirkburton) Pagefold Pannal Pannal Ash Pantry Green Park Hill Parkgate Parkhill Parlington Pateley Bridge Paythorne Pellon Penistone Penyghent or Pen y Ghent Pickburn Pilley Pinder or Pindar Oaks Pitsmoor Plaits Common Pledwick Plumpton or Plompton Pollington Pontefract Pontefract Park Poole Popeley Gate Portmahon Potovens Potter Newton Potters Hill Potterton Priest Thorpe Primrose Hill Pudsey Purlwell Purston cum South Featherstone Purston Jaglin Quarmby Queensbury Raikes Ramsgill Ranmoor Rashcliffe Rastrick Rathmell Ravenfield Ravensthorpe Raventofts Rawcliffe Rawden or Rawdon Rawmarsh Raygill Reedness Richmond Riddlesden Rimmington Ripley Ripon Ripponden Rishworth Risplith or Risplinth Robert Town Rodley Roecliffe Rombalds Moor Rossington Rotherham Rothwell Roughbirchwood Roundhay Rowall Rowley Roydhouse Royds Green Roystone Rudding Park Rufforth Rycroft Ryhill Rylstone Ryshworth Ryther Saddleworth Salendine Nook Saltaire Salterforth Salterhebble Saltonstall Sandal Magna Sandall, Kirk Sandall, Long Sandygate Sawley (Clitheroe) Sawley (Ripon) Saxton with Scarthingwell Scammonden or Dean Head Scarcroft Scarthingwell Scausby Scawthorpe Scholes (Berwick in Elmet) Scholes (Cleckheaton) Scholes (Keighley) Scholes (Kimberworth) Scholes (Kirkburton) Scholes Moor School Green Scissett Scosthrop Scotton Scriven with Tentergate Seacroft Sedbergh Selby Settle Shadwell Shaftholme Shafton Sharleston Sharow Sharrow Shaw Mill Shawcross Sheepscar Sheffield Shelf Shelley Shepley Sherburn Shipley Shire Green Shitlington Sicklinghall Sigsworth Silcoates Silkstone Silsden Silverhill Simons Seat Skelbrooke Skelden Skellow Skelmanthorpe Skelton Skewhill Skipton Skircoat Skireholme Skirethorns Slack Slade Hooton Slaidburn Slaithwaite Slippery Ford Smeaton, Kirk Smithies Smithy Fold Smithy Place Snaith Snowy Lee Snydale Soolbank Soothill South Crosland South Hiendley South Kirkby South Milford South Stainley with Cayton Southey Green Southowram Sowerby Sowerby Bridge Soyland Spen Spofforth Spring Field Springgrove Springhill Springvale Sprotbrough Stack Houses Stainbrough Stainburn Staincliffe Staincross Stainforth (Giggleswick) Stainforth (Hatfield) Stainland Stainton Stanbury Stancill with Wellingley Standbridge Stanks Stanley cum Wrenthorpe Stanningley Stannington Stansfield Stapleton Starbeck Starbotton Staveley Steel Bank Steeton Steeton with Eastburn Stirton with Thorlby Stock Stockbridge Stockeld Stockhill Stocks Bridge Stocks Moor Stockton Stone (Fixby) Stone (Maltby) Stonebeck Down Stoodley Storrs Stotfold Street Streethorpe Streethouse Stubbin Studfield Studley Roger Stump Cross (Halifax) Stump Cross (Morley) Stumperley Sturton Grange Stutton with Hazlewood Summer Lane Summerbridge Sunnyside Sutton (Burgh-Wallis) Sutton (Kildwick) Sutton Grange Swaith Swallow Nest Swallowhill Swarcliffe Swillington Swincliffe Swinden Swindon Swinefleet or Swinfleet Swinton Swithen Sykehouse Sykes Tadcaster Tankersley Tanshelf Tapton Temple Hirst Templenewsam Thackley The Colne The Dearne The Don The Greta The Hebden The Hodder The Nidd The Rather or Rawthe The Skell The Strid The Washburn The Went The Wharfe Thompson Hill Thorncliffe Thorne Thorner Thornes Thornhill Thornhill Lees Thornthwaite Thornton Thornton in Craven Thornville Thorp Arch Thorpe (Halifax) Thorpe (Idle) Thorpe (Rothwell) Thorpe Audlin Thorpe Hesley Thorpe in Balne Thorpe Salvin Thorpe Stapleton Thorpe sub Montem Thorpe Underwoods Thorpe Willoughby Threshfield Throapham Thrybergh Thunderbridge Thurgoland Thurlstone Thurnscoe Thurstonland Tickhill Tingley Tinsley Tockwith Todber Todwick Tong Topitt Topshaw Moor Tosside, Tosset, or Houghton Toulston Towton Treeton Triangle Trumpfleet Tudworth Twisleton Tyersall Ughill Ulleskelf Ulley Undercliffe Upper Poppleton Upper Stonebeck Upper Whitley Upperthorpe Upton Utley Waddington Wadsley Wadsworth Wadworth Wainstalls Wakefield Walden Stubbs Wales Waleswood Walkingham Hill with Ockany Walkley Wallingwells Walshford Walton Walton (Sandal Magna) Ward Green Warley Warmfield with Heath Warmsworth Warsill Waterloo Waterside or Quay Wath upon Dearne Weardley Weathercote Weeton Wellingley Wentbridge Wentworth Wentworth Castle Wescoe Hill West Ardsley West Bradford West Bretton West Clayton West Haddlesey West Halton West Hardwick West Melton West Syke Green West Town (St Matthew) Westend Westerton Westgate Hill Weston Westwick Wetherby Wharncliffe Wharncliffe Side Wheatley (Doncaster) Wheatley (Ilkley) Wheatley (Ovenden) Wheldale Whernside Whetley Whirlow Whiston Whitcliffe with Thorpe White Cragg Whitechapel Whitehouses Whiteley Wood Whitgift Whitkirk Whitley (Ecclesfield) Whitley (Kellington) Whitwood Whitwood Mere Whixley Wibsey Wicker Wickersley Widdington Wigglesworth Wighill Wigton Wigtwizzle Wike Wike or Wyke Wilsden Wilshaw Wilsick Wilsill Wilstrop Wincobank Windhill Winksley Winmoor or Whimnoor Winskill Winsley Winterburn Wintersett Wisewood Wistow Wombwell Womersley Woodall Woodbottom Woodhall Hill Woodhouse (Handsworth) Woodhouse (Huddersfield) Woodhouse (Leeds) Woodhouse (Shelley) Woodhouse Hill Woodlesford Woodnook Woodside Woodsome Lees Woodthorpe Wooldale Woolley Worral Worsbrough Wortley (Barnsley) Wortley (Leeds) Wothersome Wragby Wrangbrook Wrangthorn Wrenthorpe Wrose Yeadon Yockenthwaite Yordas Cave