Honley, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Honley, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Huddersfield Union, in the W.R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Holme, half a mile SSW of a station of its owrf name on the L. & Y.R., and 4 miles S by W of Huddersfield, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Huddersfield. The township contains also the hamlets of Deanhouse, Brockholes, Oldfield, Smithy Place, Hagg, and Woodnook. Acreage of township, 2435; population, 5466; of the ecclesiastical parish, 4339. The township is governed by a local board of fifteen members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dartmouth. There are extensive woollen mills and dyeworks, and the Huddersfield ' Corporation supply water for domestic purposes. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £407 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury. The church was rebuilt in 1843, is in the Early English style, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower, and contains two handsome monuments to the Brooke family. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, Primitive and New Connexion Methodist chapels, Conservative, Liberal, and Labour clubs, a working-men's club, a police station, and a workhouse. There is a mission church at Brockholes.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Almondbury | |
Poor Law union | Huddersfield | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Agbrigg |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Honley 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 Honley 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: