Oulton, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Oulton, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Rothwell parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the river Aire and the Leeds and Normanton railway, 1 mile ESE of Woodlesford railway station, and 5¼ miles ESE of Leeds, is a pleasant place, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. The township contains also the village of Woodlesford, and bears the name of Oulton-with-Woodlesford. Acreage, 1143 of land and 31 of water; population, 2776. There is a parish council for Oulton-with-Woodlesford consisting of eleven members. The manor, with Oulton Hall, belongs to the Calverley family. The hall is a large and elegant edifice in the Grecian style, rebuilt in 1851. Dr Richard Bentley was a native. The chapelry is conterminate with the township. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £275 with residence. The church was built in 1828-30 at a cost of £12,000; is a fine structure in the Pointed style, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire. Woodlesford was formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1870. There are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels, large stone quarries, and a charity producing about £220 per annum.
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 Oulton 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: