Place:Upper Whitley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

Upper Whitley or Whitley Upper was a village and an urban district in West Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1894 (when urban districts were first established) until 1938. In 1938 the urban district was abolished and absorbed into the civil parish of Kirkburton. Since 1974 the area has been part of the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire. In the 19th century and before it was in the ecclesiastical parish of Thornhill.

The village of Lower Whitley is geographically not far away, but is linked to Thornhill rather than Kirkburton.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Upper Whitley from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"WHITLEY (Upper), a township in Kirkheaton parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire; 6 miles E by N of Huddersfield. Acres: 1,953. Population: 947. Houses: 186. Whitley-Beaumont is the seat of H. F. Beaumout, Esq.; and Grange Hall, of Sir J. L. Kaye, Bart. Coal is largely worked."

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