Lindley (Otley), West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Lindley, a village and a township in Otley parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire, on high ground above the river Washbum, near the river Wharfe, 3½ miles NNE of Otley. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Otley. Acreage, 1789; population, 60. The manor belongs to the Fawkes family of Farnley Hall. The Leeds Corporation have a reservoir here.
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 | Otley | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Claro |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Lindley (Otley) 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 Lindley (Otley) 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: