Denholme, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Denholme or Denholme Gate, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish formed from Bradford parish, W.R. Yorkshire, 5½ miles W of Bradford. There are a station on the G.N.R., a post, money order, and telegraph office at Denholme, and a post office at Denholme Gate, both under Bradford. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1847. Population, 3237. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The architecture of the church is Early English, with clerestory windows, clustered pillars, groined roof, nave, and north and south aisles, possessing a splendid organ and stained glass windows. There are several dissenting chapels. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in a weaving, worsted, and spinning mill, a colliery, stone quarries, and a brewery.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Morley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Denholme:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1845-1995 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Denholme from the following:
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 Denholme 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: