Place:Wooldale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameWooldale
Alt namesLydgate in Wooldalesource: hamlet in township
Tottiessource: hamlet in township
TypeTownship
Coordinates53.58°N 1.766°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inWest Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
Yorkshire, England    
See alsoKirkburton, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandancient parish in which it was located
Holmfirth, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandurban district in which it was located until 1974
Kirklees (metropolitan borough), West Yorkshire, Englandmunicipal district covering the area since 1974
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Wooldale is now a small village nestled on a hill, overlooking the Kirkroyds area of New Mill (often Newmill) and Holmfirth in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 2,420 in the UK census of 2011.

The following 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 Portsmouth Department of Geography).

"WOOLDALE, a township, with a village, in Kirkburton parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire; ¾ mile NE of Holmfirth. It includes part of Holmfirth town, the hamlets of Totties and Lydgate, and part of Scholes. Acres: 2 370. Real property: £10,281. Population in 1851: 5,600; in 1861: 5,322. Houses: 1,079. The manor belongs to S. W. L. Fox, Esq. There are woollen manufactories, fulling mills, two dissenting chapels, and two public schools."


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