Barnoldswick, West Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Barnoldswick, a township and a parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The township lies adjacent to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 5 miles N of Colne, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Colne, and a station on the M.R. The parish is also called Gill-Kirk, from the situation of its church on the verge of a deep glen, and includes likewise the townships of Salterforth, Coates, and Brogden-with-Admergill. Acreage, 2129; population of the civil parish and urban sanitary district, 4131; of the ecclesiastical, 4758. Much of the surface is hilly. An abbey was founded here in 1147, but in consequence of local disputes was removed to Kirkstall. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £280 with residence. The church is a building in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. There are four dissenting chapels. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in cotton spinning and working the limestone quarries.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Barnoldswick from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barnoldswick (St. Mary))

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 Barnoldswick 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:

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