Place:Netherthong, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameNetherthong
Alt namesNether Thongsource: earlier spelling
Thongsbridgesource: hamlet on the edge of Netherthong
TypeTownship
Coordinates53.583°N 1.793°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inWest Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
Yorkshire, England    
See alsoAlmondbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandancient parish of which Netherthong was a part
Agbrigg and Morley Wapentake, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandwapentake in which it was located
Holmfirth, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandurban district 1894-1921 and civil parish 1921-1974 incorporating Netherthong
Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, Englandcivil parish replacing Holmfirth in 1974
Kirklees, West Yorkshire, Englandmunicipal district covering the area since 1974
The following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Since 1974 Netherthong has been a village in the civil parish of Holme Valley, and the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. The village is near the town of Holmfirth, and on the B6107 road to Meltham which extends from the main A6024 Woodhead Road through the Holme Valley from Holmfirth north to Honley. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 1,738.

Prior to 1974 Netherthong was part of the urban district of Holmfirth (1894-1974). In the 19th century most men and some women were employed in weaving mills; an additional source of employment was "delving", the extraction of stone. The lay of the land allowed for more employment in stone quarrying in Netherthong than in other villages further south in Holme 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 Portsmouth Department of Geography).

"THONG (Nether), a township and a chapelry in Almondbury parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Holme, and on the Huddersfield and Holmfirth railway, 4½ miles S of Huddersfield; and contains Thongs-Bridge hamlet, which has a post-office under Huddersfield, and a railway station. Acres: 850. Real property: £3,769. Population: 1,097. Houses: 223. There are woollen manufactures and stone quarries. The chapelry includes part of Honley township, and was constituted in 1842. Population [of this section] in 1861: 1,640. Houses: 326.
"The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value: £125. Patron: the Vicar of Almondbury. The church was built in 1830. A workhouse, of Huddersfield district, was opened here in 1862, and had 200 inmates in 1868."

The former Wesleyan chapel in the village was the first in the Huddersfield area. The chapel (now a private dwelling) was opened in 1771. Netherthong parish church is All Saints, built between 1829–30.

image:The Holme Valley 19th cent.png
The actual distance covered by the map horizontally is 20 miles or less.

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Thongsbridge

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Thongsbridge is a small village in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England. It is in the semi-rural Holme Valley and the village boundaries merge into the neighbouring communities of Holmfirth, New Mill and Wooldale. According to the 2001 UK Census, it covers an area of 124.7 hectares (308 acres).

One of the first records of Thongsbridge is from the early 13th century when the area was owned by the Bisset family. The village expanded in the early days of the industrial revolution, its location, within the steep-sided valley, being ideal for the water-powered textile mills.

The homes and businesses located in the valley bottom were affected by a number of floods that affected the Holme Valley. The Holmfirth Flood of 1852 was amongst the most severe, with a number of houses and parts of the local textile mill being swept away.

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Research Tips

  • The FamilySearch wiki for Yorkshire (all three ridings) has articles on all parishes.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time on Holmfirth.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to maps of the West Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. The location of individual settlements within the parishes is also shown. These maps all expand to a very large scale.
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