Name | Thackley |
Type | Hamlet, City district |
Coordinates | 53.844°N 1.734°W |
Located in | West Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974) |
Also located in | Yorkshire, England | | West Yorkshire, England (1974 - ) |
See also | Idle, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | civil parish in which Thackley is located | | Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | county borough of which it was a part 1899-1974 | | Bradford (metropolitan borough), West Yorkshire, England | conurbation in which it has been located since 1974 |
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Thackley is a small suburb near Bradford, West Yorkshire in England. The village is loosely bordered by the village of Idle to the south, to the west by the West Royd area of Shipley and elsewhere by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Thackley is the northernmost part of Bradford south of the River Aire.
Historically, Thackley was in the ecclesiastical parish of Calverley in the Morley Division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley. Windhill was in the civil parish of Idle until 1899 and in the City of Bradford from 1899 until 1974.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Thackley.
Research Tips
- GENUKI on Thackley. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
- The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Calverley provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
- A Vision of Britain through Time on Thackley.
- 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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