Oughtibridge, West Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Oughtibridge, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Ecclesfield parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Don, adjacent to the M.S. & L.R.,4½ miles NNW of Sheffield, and has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sheffield. The ecclesiastical parish contains also the hamlets of Middlewood, Onesacre, and Wharncliffe Side. Population, 2109. Middlewood Hall is the seat of the Skelton family. Industry io carried on in steelworks, cutlery manufactures, gannister-grinding, iron and steel rolling mills, paper and corn mills, and in quarries. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £165 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Wadsley. The church was built in 1842, and is in the Norman style. There are Congregational, Wesleyan y and Reformed Methodist chapels, and a mixed national school. The last was built in 1861, with houses for the master and mistress, at a cost of £1700, and is in the Tudor style. There is also a Wesleyan chapel at Wharncliffe Side.

Administration

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

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Church Records

Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Oughtibridge:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Oughtibridge from the following:

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

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 Oughtibridge 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