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Austonley is now a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the centre of Holmfirth. Today it has disappeared from all maps. To find it look for the villages of Holme and Upperthong and estimate a halfway point between them. In the 19th century Austonley was one of many settlements dependent on local weaving mills for employment. Its population was fairly stationary at 1,450 during the period 1881-1921, but the area of the township dropped from 3,316 acres in 1881 to 1,272 acres ten years later. Earlier population statistics were not available in A Vision of Britain Through Time, but between 1840 and 1880 the population may well have been higher. The description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portmouth Department of Geography).
Holmfirth became an urban district in 1924 and Austonley was one of many communities within the district which lost its individual identity at that time. Since the municipal reorganization of 1974, the area is now located in the Kirklees municipal district in West Yorkshire. See also Holme Valley, the name of the district within Kirklees since 1974. [edit] Research Tips
Categories: West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Austonley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Almondbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Agbrigg and Morley Wapentake, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Holmfirth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, England | Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England | West Yorkshire, England |