Place:Esholt, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

Esholt (#10 on the map) was a civil parish and a village located in Wharfedale Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 until 1937. In 1937 it was divided between Baildon Urban District, Ilkley Urban District and the newly-formed Aireborough Urban District.

Since 1974 these three urban districts have become parts either of Bradford Metropolitan Borough or Leeds Metropolitan Borough.

Today Esholt is a village between Shipley and Guiseley, in the metropolitan district of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. GENUKI states that in the 1820s it was in the ecclesiastical parish of Guiseley and in the Upper Division of the wapentake of Skyrack.

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 Portmouth Department of Geography).

"ESHOLT, a township-chapelry in Otley parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire; on the river Aire, near the Leeds and Liverpool canal, 3½ miles NE of Shipley [railway] station, and 5¾ N of Bradford. Post town: Guiseley, under Leeds. Real property, with Hawksworth: £4,528. Population: 369. Houses: 75. The property is divided among a few.

"A Cistertian nunnery was founded here, in the 12th century, by Simon de Ward; went to the Calverleys; and passed to the Stansfields. Esholt Hall, a splendid modern mansion, the seat of W. R.Stansfield, Esq., now occupies the nunnery's site. The chapelry was constituted in 1854. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, united with the [perpetual] curacy of Hawksworth, in the diocese of Ripon. Value: £100. Patron: W. R.Stansfield, Esq. The church is recent; and there are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists."