Saltaire, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Saltaire, a village in Shipley township, Bradford parish, W.R. Yorkshire, on the river Aire, with a station on a section of the M.R., 2 miles SE of Bingley, and 4 NW of Bradford. It was founded about 1852 by Sir Titus Salt, Bart., consists of well-planned streets, is generally regarded as a model village, underwent great enlargement in 1866-68, and contains a factory built in 1853, and another built in 1865. The factories are very extensive, and afford employment for between 3000 and 4000 hands in spinning and the manufacture of textile fabrics. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Shipley, and is supplied with water from the Shipley District Council Waterworks. Saltaire Park, 14 acres in extent, was opened in 1871. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, an infirmary open to residents within 3 miles, and the famous Salt schools, which comprise high schools for boys and girls, erected in 1877, and an institute containing a fine hall and reading-room, library, lecture-theatre, gymnasium, and class-rooms. In 1887 technical schools were erected as an addition to the institute in memory of Sir Titus Salt; these are said to be unsurpassed in completeness by anything of the kind in Yorkshire.
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 Saltaire 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: