Place:


Linthwaite  West Riding

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Linthwaite like this:

LINTHWAITE, a township and a chapelry in Almondbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river. Colne and the Manchester canal, near Golcar r. station, 4 miles SW of Huddersfield; carries on largely the woollen manufacture; and has a post office under Huddersfield. Acres, 1,334. Pop. ...


in 1851,3,802; in 1861, 4,300. Houses, 850. The property is much subdivided. Good building-stone is quarried.—The chapelry was constituted in 1842, and is less extensive than the township. Pop. in 1861,3,144. Houses, 623. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. * Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury. The church was built in 1828, at a cost of £3,000; and is a neat edifice with tower and spire. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Free Methodists, and national and Wesleyan schools.

Linthwaite through time

Linthwaite is now part of Kirklees district. Click here for graphs and data of how Kirklees has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Linthwaite itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Linthwaite, in Kirklees and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/742

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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