Pilley, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Pilley, a hamlet in Tankersley township and parish, W.R. Yorkshire, 4 miles S of Barnsley, and half a mile from Birdwell station on the M.S. & L.R. Post town and money order office, Whamcliffe Silkstone Colliery, under Barnsley; telegraph office, Birdwell (R.S.) The manor belongs to Lord Wharncliffe. There are an extensive colliery and a mission church.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Hampshire | |
Civil parish | Boldre | |
Hundred | New Forest | |
Poor Law union | Lymington |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Pilley 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 Pilley 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: