West Hardwick, West Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Hardwick, West, a township in Wragby parish, W.R. Yorkshire, 3½ miles SW of Pontefract, and 1 mile from Featherstone station on the L. & Y.R. Acreage, 487; population, 33. -

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 West Hardwick 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:

• Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
• Leeds Mercury
• Yorkshire Evening Post
• Huddersfield Chronicle
• Leeds Intelligencer
• Bradford Observer
• Bradford Daily Telegraph