Mill Bridge, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Mill Bridge, a large village in Liversedge ecclesiastical parish, Birstal parish, W.R. Yorkshire, 6½ miles NNW of Huddersfield, and a quarter of a mile from Liversedge station on the L. & Y.R. Its inhabitants are chiefly employed in the cloth, carpet, blanket, and card manufactures.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
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 Mill Bridge from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Milnes-Bridge)
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 Mill Bridge 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: