Bracewell, West Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Bracewell, a parish in the W.R. Yorkshire, adjacent to the Liverpool and Leeds Canal, 3 miles from Thornton railway station, and 9 WSW of Skipton, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Barnoldswick. Acreage, 2025; population, 130. An old house here was a retreat of Henry VI. after the battle of Hesham. Limestone is worked. The living is a discharged vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; gross value, £150 with residence. The church is very good, and contains several monuments to the Tempests and others.

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 Bracewell from the following:

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

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 Bracewell 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