Clayton, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Clayton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in W.R. Yorkshire. The township lies 3 miles W by S of Bradford, and has a station on the G.N.R. It contains the village of Clayton Heights, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bradford. Area of the township, 1744 acres; population, 7484; of the ecclesiastical parish, 4707. The woollen manufacture is extensively carried on, and there are quarries and coal mines in the neighbourhood. The ecclesiastical parish does not include all the township, and was constituted in 1858. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £280 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Bradford. The church was built in 1851, and is in the Decorated English style, and there are Baptist and Wesleyan -chapels. The North Bierly workhouse is in this parish.
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 Clayton 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 Clayton 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: