Stanningley, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Stanningley, an ecclesiastical parish, with a village on the Leeds and Halifax branch of the G.N.R., 5 miles W of Leeds, and within the boundary of the city of Leeds, W.R. Yorkshire. It has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. Population, 5573. There are woollen factories, machine-works, an iron-foundry, and quarries. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon; gross value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Leeds. The church was built in 1841, is in the Norman style, and consists of chancel, nave, and western tower. There are Baptist, Free, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a Gospel Temperance mission-room; also, Liberal and Conservative clubs and an Oddfellows' lodge. The ecclesiastical parish includes the hamlet of Rodley in the Aire Valley, where there is a mission room.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Morley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stanningley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stanningley)
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 Stanningley 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: