Lindley, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Lindley, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Huddersfield parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire. It is also a ward in the borough of Huddersfield. The village stands on high ground, 2½ miles NW by W of Hudderisfield; commands a good view over that town and its neighbourhood, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.), under Huddersfield. The township contains also the hamlet and ecclesiastical parish of Birchincliffe, and five other hamlets, and is sometimes called Lindley-with-Quarmby. It comprises 1492 acres; population, 8573. Many good villas, forming a suburb to Huddersfield, have been erected. A local boaid of health was established in 1860, and other improvements were made in subsequent years, and were in progress in 1866. Extensive industry is carried on in the manufacture of plain and fancy woollens, of mohair and seal-skin cloths, and of woollen and cotton cards for manufacturing uses, and in woollen scribbling and yarn spinning. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1843, and is conterminate with the township. Population, 7003. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; net value, £350. Patron, the Vicar of Huddersfield. The church is a neat stone edifice in the Pointed style, has a chancel, nave, and tower, contains several stained windows, and about 700 sittings. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and New Connexion Methodist chapels at Lindley, and a chapel for Particular Baptists at Salendine Nook. A church was erected in 1877 at Birchincliffe, where there are Conservative and Liberal clubs, and a commodious mechanics' hall erected in 1849, including a library and reading-rooms. The living is a separate benefice.
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 | Huddersfield | |
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 Lindley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lindley cum Quarmby)
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 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: