Birstwith, West Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Birstwith, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Nidd, and on the Nidd Valley railway, 3 miles WSW of Ripley. It has a station on the railway and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. Acreage, 1802; population of the township, 474; of the ecclesiastical parish, 458. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £200 with residence. The church was built in 1857. There are two Methodist chapels. Coal was formerly worked. There are two gentlemen's seats in the parish—Swarcliff, the property of the Greenwoods; and Birstwith Hall, a smaller place also belonging to the same family.

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 Birstwith from the following:

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

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 Birstwith 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