Briestfield, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Briestfield, a hamlet and a village in Lower Whitley township, Thornhill parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire, 2 miles from Dewsbury, which is the railway station and post office. The inhabitants are employed in the mills and collieries of Thornhill Lees and Grange Moor, and in agriculture. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 Briestfield 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: