In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Buttershaw like this:
BUTTERSHAW, a chapelry in Bradford parish, W. R. Yorkshire, near Bradford; constituted in 1842. Post Town, Bradford. Rated property, £4,334. Pop., 2,247. Houses, 505. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £200.* Patron,Hardy, Esq. The church was built in 1838; and a handsome Independent chapel was built in 1868.
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Buttershaw through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Buttershaw, in Bradford and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25422
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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