Lothersdale, West Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Lothersdale, an ecclesiastical parish partly in Kildwick parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The village was taken from Carlton parish in 1894, and made a separate parish for parish council purposes. It lies 5 miles SW of Skipton, and 3 from Cononley station on the M.R., and has a post office under Keighley; money order and telegraph office, Cononley. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1838. Population, 573. At Raygill, near here, are limestone and barytes mines. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Carleton-in-Craven. The church was built in 1838, and is said to be-the first church erected in Craven after the Reformation. There are also a United Free Methodist chapel and a Friends' meeting-house.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Lothersdale from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lothersdale)

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 Lothersdale 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:

• Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
• Leeds Mercury
• Yorkshire Evening Post
• Huddersfield Chronicle
• Leeds Intelligencer
• Bradford Observer
• Bradford Daily Telegraph