Thorpe Audlin, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Thorpe Audlin, a village and a township in Badsworth parish, W.R. Yorkshire, 4½ miles SSE of Pontefract, and about 2 miles from Upton station on the Hull and Barnsley railway. Post town, Pontefract; money order office, Badsworth; telegraph office, Upton (E.S.) Acreage, 1311; population, 251. The manor belongs to the Ramsden family. Rogerthorpe is the chief residence. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 Thorpe Audlin 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: