Wrenthorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Wrenthorpe, a ward in the township of Outwood, and an ecclesiastical parish in Wakefield parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire, with a station (Lofthouse) on the Leeds and Wakefield railway, 2 miles NNE of Wakefield. There is a post office under Wakefield; money order and telegraph office, Wakefield. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1875. Population, 2183. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £168 with residence. See STASLEY-CUM-WRENTHORPE.
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 Wrenthorpe 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: