Wibsey, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Wibsey, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Bradford parish, W.R. Yorkshire. The village stands 2 miles SSW of Bradford station, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bradford, and horse fairs on 5 Oct. and 25 Nov. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1881, and includes Wibsey Bankfoot and Wibsey Slack hamlets. Population, 4580. Most of the inhabitants are employed in mines, ironworks, foundries, and worsted mills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £370 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Bradford. The church is good. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Bradford | |
Poor Law union | Bradford | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Morley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wibsey 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 Wibsey 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: