Lindley Yorkshire Family History Guide
Lindley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1831 from a chapelry in Huddersfield St Peter Ancient Parish, located on Lidget Street.
Other places in the parish include: Salendine Nook, Royd’s Hall, Quarmby Cliffe, Quarmby Cliff, Oaks, Hill Top, Bircham Cliffe, and Bircham Cliff.
Alternative names: Quarmby with Lindley, Lindley near Huddersfield, Huddersfield St Stephen Lidget Street, Lindley cum Quarmby
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1830
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Methodist, Methodist New Connexion, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LINDLEY, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Huddersfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on high ground, 2¼ miles NW by W of Huddersfield; commands a good view over that town and its neighbourhood; and has a post office under Huddersfield, a penny savings’ bank, a church institute and reading-room, and a commodious mechanics’ hall, erected in 1849, and including a library and readingroom.
The township contains also Birchin-Cliffe, and five other hamlets; and is sometimes called Lindley-cum-Quarmby. Acres, 2,210. Real property, £11,319; of which £400 are in mines. Pop. in 1851,3,584; in 1861,4,259. Houses, 876. The increase of pop. arose from the opening of several new mills.
Many good villas, forming a suburb to Huddersfield, have recently been erected. A local board of health was established in 1860; and other improvements were made in subsequent years, and were in progress in 1866. Extensive industry is carried on in the manufacture of plain and fancy woollens, of mohair and seal-skin cloths, and of woollen and cotton cards for manufacturing uses, and in woollen scribbling and yarn spinning. Coal is largely worked.
The chapelry was constituted in 1842, and is conterminate with the township.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £200. Patron, the Vicar of Huddersfield. The church is a neat stone edifice, in the pointed style; has a tower; and contains about 700 sittings.
There are chapels for Wesleyans, New Connexion Methodists, and United Free Methodists at Lindley; and a chapel for Baptists at Salendine-Nook.
There are also an endowed school and national schools; and the latter were built in 1865, at a cost of £1,250.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Huddersfield
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Knaresborough
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Huddersfield
- Hundred: Agbrigg
- Province: York