Place:Shelley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Shelley is a village in the civil parish of Kirkburton, situated in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England from 1974. The village is 3 miles (5 km) north of Holmfirth and 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Huddersfield.

Road transport links are the A629 and B6116 roads. Within the village is Shelley Hall, which dates to the 17th century, and is a Grade II* listed building.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Kirkburton. GENUKI indexes only the ancient parishes. Townships that later became civil parishes are listed on a "supplementary page" following the page for the main parish. The GENUKIarticles only deal with events up until 1820. It is worth glancing through the other places listed on the supplementary page to see if it lists any other communities within Almondbury ancient parish.

• The FamilySearch wiki for Yorkshire (all three ridings) has articles on all parishes--not just ancient 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.

• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
• Ordnance Survey West Riding North 1900 and Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. NOTE: In 2022 the map of the southern section is not available through the Vision of Britain website. It is unknown if this omission is accidental or if the copy used by the university has been damaged in some way.
• Yorkshire West Riding South and Yorkshire West Riding North revised_1944. These two maps illustrate the urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
• A further useful map on A Vision of Britain through Time is a boundary map dated 1917. This shows all the boundaries of villages, townships and parishes in the Holmfirth area.

One contributor to WeRelate has provided many pages on the families of the Holmfirth area. For this reason many of the small villages and hamlets are listed separately. The maps listed above will help to lay out the locations of these small places in relation to each other and may thus explain how far a man went to find his bride or what village he moved his family to when his home village no longer held a source of employment for him.