Place:Whitley (near Pontefract), West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameWhitley (near Pontefract)
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates53.684°N 1.1516°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inNorth Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
Yorkshire, England    
See alsoPontefract Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district of which it was a part 1894-1938
Osgoldcross Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district of which it was a part 1938-1974
Selby District, North Yorkshire, Englandmunicipal district of which it has been a part since 1974
source: Family History Library Catalog


NOTE: There is another Whitley within the City of Sheffield. Upper Whitley and Lower Whitley are yet another pair of villages located near Huddersfield in Kirklees.


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Whitley is a village in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the Aire and Calder Navigation and the M62 motorway. The population of the village at the 2001 census was recorded as being 574, which had risen to 1,021 by the time of the 2011 census.[1] In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to have risen again to 1,110. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Whitley from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"WHITLEY, a township and a sub-district, in Pontefract district, [West Riding of] Yorkshire. The township lies on the Goole canal and on the Goole railway, 7 miles E by N of Pontefract; contains a straggling village of its own name; has a post-office under Pontefract, and a [railway] station with telegraph, both of the name of Whitley-Bridge; and is in Kellington parish. Acres: 1,800. Real property: £2,336. Population: 356. Houses: 79. There are maltings, corn mills, bone-mills, a chapel of ease, and a Wesleyan chapel.
"The sub-district contains six townships in three parishes; and comprises 13,407 acres. Population: 2,009. Houses: 418."
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