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- source: Family History Library Catalog
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is a condensation of an article in Wikipedia
Stanley is an area in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It is about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northeast of Wakefield city centre. Stanley was an urban district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 until 1974, being made up the four electoral wards of Lake Lock, Outwood, Stanley and Wrenthorpe. In the 2001 census the Lofthouse / Stanley area of West Yorkshire has a combined population of 22,947.
This description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 shows that the area has been densely inhabited for almost two centuries. Wikipedia infers that the main industry was coal-mining.:
- "STANLEY, a village, a chapelry, a township, and a [registration] sub-district, in Wakefield parish and [registration] district, [West Riding of] Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Calder, 2 miles SE of Outwood [railway] station, and 2 NNE of Wakefield; is a scattered place, really forming two villages; and has a post-office under Wakefield.
- "The chapelry was constituted in 1830. Population in 1861: 2,924. Houses: 440. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value: £230. Patron, the Vicar of Wakefield.
- "The township includes the NE suburbs of Wakefield, and 7 hamlets; contains Wakefield water-works, Wakefield workhouse, and the West Riding pauper lunatic asylum; bears the name of Stanley-with-Wrenthorpe; and comprises 4,345 acres. Real property, £26,272; of which £9,800 are in mines, and £20 in quarries. Population in 1851: 7,257; in 1861: 8,237. Houses: 1,498. There are numerous good residences. A Roman station, with a Roman mint, was on an eminence above Lake Lock. Pindars Field, where Robin Hood is said to have fought the Pindar of Wakefield, is near Fieldhead. A boat-repairing yard is on the Calder; and there are brick-fields and roperies.
- "The pauper lunatic asylum was built at a cost of more than £100,000; and, at the census of 1861, had 1,041 inmates. Stanley church was built in 1824, at a cost of about £12,000; underwent repair in 1851, at a cost of £1,100; and is in the later English style. The township contains also Outwood church, seven dissenting chapels, two national schools, and two alms houses. The [registration] sub-district is conterminate with the township."
(Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)
The hamlets of Wrenthorpe, Outwood and Lake Lock have been redirected here. Wrenthorpe and Outwood both have articles in Wikipedia.
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