Horbury, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Horbury, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Wakefield parish, W.R. Yorkshire. The township stands adjacent to the river Calder, 3 miles SW of Wakefield, and has two stations on the L. & Y.R., called Horbury Bridge and Horbury Junction, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wakefield. It is governed by a local board. Acreage of township, 1279; population, 5673. There are woollen, worsted, flannel, and yarn manufactories, scribbling and fulling mills, and stone quarries. Horbury is divided into three ecclesiastical parishes, viz.-St Peter and St Leonard (population, 3566), Horbury Bridge (population, 709), and Horbury Junction (population, 1509). The living of Hotbury is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £300 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1794 at a cost of £8000, is in the Renaissance style, and consists of nave, chancel, and transept, with tower and spire. Horbury Junction was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1890. The living is a perpetual curacy; gross value, £150. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Free Methodist chapels, and a House of Mercy for the recovery of fallen women, established in 1858 and enlarged in 1883, conducted by Sisters of Mercy.
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 | Wakefield | |
Poor Law union | Wakefield | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Agbrigg |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Horbury 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 Horbury 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: