Midgley, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Midgley, a village and a township in Halifax parish, W.R. Yorkshire. The village stands on a lofty eminence, 1½ mile NW of Luddenden Foot railway station, and 4¾ miles W by N of Halifax. The township contains also parts of the villages of Luddenden, Luddenden Foot, and Mytholm-royd. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Luddenden. Acreage of township, 2629; population, 3055. Ewood Hall, Brearley Hall, Brearley House, Broadfold, Castle Carr, Oats Boyd, Kershaw House, The Greave, Ellen Royd, Turn Lee, and Thorn Bank, are chief residences. The surface is chiefly a mountainous tract on the N side of the Vale of Calder. There are extensive woollen and worsted mills, a paper mill, Wesleyan and Congregational chapels, a working-men's club, and small charities.
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 | Halifax | |
Poor Law union | Halifax | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Morley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Midgley 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 Midgley 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: