Place:Linthwaite, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Linthwaite (known as Linfit in the local community) is a village now in West Yorkshire, England. Historically located in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated 4 miles (6 km) west of Huddersfield, on the A62 in the Colne Valley urban district. The village together with Blackmoorfoot had a population of 3,835 according to the 2001 census (the eqivalent 2011 figure is not given).

The River Colne, Huddersfield Narrow Canal, the Huddersfield to Manchester rail line and A62 main road all pass near to the village. After they were constructed, textile mills were then built to produce cloth making use of the river for water power. This led to the growth of the village. Linthwaite Hall on Linfit Fold was built around 1600.

Historically, Linthwaite was in the ancient and ecclesiastical parish of Almondbury in the Agbrigg Division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley. From 1894 until 1937, Linthwaite was an urban district. From 1937 until 1974 it was part of urban district of Colne Valley.

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).

"LINTHWAITE, a township and a chapelry in Almondbury parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire. The township lies on the river. Colne and the Manchester canal, near Golcar [railway] station, 4 miles SW of Huddersfield; carries on largely the woollen manufacture; and has a post office under Huddersfield. Acres: 1,334. Population in 1851: 3,802; in 1861: 4,300. Houses: 850. The property is much subdivided. Good building-stone is quarried.

"The chapelry was constituted in 1842, and is less extensive than the township. Population in 1861: 3,144. Houses: 623. The living is a {perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value: £150. Patron: the Vicar of Almondbury. The church was built in 1828, at a cost of £3,000; and is a neat edifice with tower and spire. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Free Methodists, and national and Wesleyan schools."

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Linthwaite. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Almondbury provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Linthwaite.
• A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for what is now South Yorkshire, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
• Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (the southern part of Bradford, the southern part of Leeds, the southern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the southern part of Selby, Goole Rural District, and all the divisions of Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield)
• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.