Lindley, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes K-R  West Riding  Lindley

Parish History
LINDLEY, a township, in the parish of Otley, Upper division of the wapentake of Claro, W. riding of York, 3¾ miles (N. E. by N.) from Otley; containing 140 inhabitants. The township comprises by computation 1760 acres. The village consists of a few scattered houses, in the vale of the Washburn rivulet, on the banks of which are some corn-mills. Here are considerable remains of an ancient hall, the seat of the Palmes family, who are interred in Otley church.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 87-95. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51108 Date accessed: 20 August 2011.

LINDLEY cum Quarmby, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Huddersfield, Upper division of the wapentake of Agbrigg, W. riding of York, 2 miles (N. W.) from Huddersfield; containing 2881 inhabitants. The chapelry comprises 1403a. 1r. 28p., of which about 30 acres are woodland, and the remainder, with a trifling exception, pasture; the surface is elevated, commanding views of Huddersfield and the surrounding country. The substratum abounds with good buildingstone, which is extensively quarried. The village is large and well built, and the inhabitants are chiefly employed in the woollen manufacture, for which there are four large establishments. A district church, dedicated to St. Stephen, was erected in 1830, at an expense of £2700, by the Parliamentary Commissioners; it is a handsome structure in the later English style, and contains 800 sittings, of which one-half are free. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £164, with an excellent glebe-house in the Elizabethan style, erected in 1838, at an expense of £1200; patron, the Vicar of Huddersfield. The site for the church and cemetery was given by John Thornhill, Esq., lord of the manor. There are places of worship for Baptists, Kilhamites, and Wesleyans.From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 87-95. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51108 Date accessed: 20 August 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
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