Place:Wooldale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameWooldale
Alt namesLydgate in Wooldalesource: hamlet in township
Tottiessource: hamlet in township
TypeTownship
Coordinates53.58°N 1.766°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inWest Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
Yorkshire, England    
See alsoKirkburton, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandancient parish in which it was located
Holmfirth, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandurban district in which it was located until 1974
Kirklees (metropolitan borough), West Yorkshire, Englandmunicipal district covering the area since 1974
the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Wooldale is now a small village nestled on a hill, overlooking the Kirkroyds area of New Mill (often expressed as "Newmill") and Holmfirth in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 2,420 in the UK census of 2011.

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).

"WOOLDALE, a township, with a village, in Kirkburton parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire; ¾ mile NE of Holmfirth. It includes part of Holmfirth town, the hamlets of Totties and Lydgate, and part of Scholes. Acres: 2,370. Real property: £10,281. Population in 1851: 5,600; in 1861: 5,322. Houses: 1,079. The manor belongs to S. W. L. Fox, Esq. There are woollen manufactories, fulling mills, two dissenting chapels, and two public schools."

As described by Wilson, it was a fairly large settlement in the 19th century.

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

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Research Tips

  • GENUKI on Almondbury. 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.
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