Place:Wibsey, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Wibsey (population 14,530 – 2001 UK census) is a ward within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, West Yorkshire, England.^[1] The population had increased to 14,671 at the 2011 Census. Wibsey is named after Wibsey village which makes up the main part of the ward. As well as the area of Wibsey, the ward includes the area of Bankfoot to the east and much of the area of Odsal. It is located on a ridge which runs from the city centre, up to Queensbury, which has been credited as the highest market town in England.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Wibsey. A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Deighton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"WIBSEY, a village and a chapelry in Bradford parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire. The village stands 2 miles SSW of Bradford [railway] station; and has horse fairs on 5 Oct. and 25 Nov. The chapelry includes Wibsey-Bankfoot and Wibsey-Slack hamlets; the former of which has a post-office under Bradford, Yorkshire. Population: not separately returned. Most of the inhabitants are employed in mines, iron-works, foundries, and worsted mills. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £275. Patron, the Vicar of Bradford. The church is good."

Historically, Wibsey was in the ecclesiastical parish of Bradford in the Morley Division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley. It was incorporated into Bradford in 1899. Prior to that it had been within the civil parish of North Bierley.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Wibsey. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Bradford provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Wibsey.
• 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.