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The Ancient Parish of OTLEY

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"OTLEY, a market and parish-town, in the upper-division of Skyrack, liberty of Cawood, Wistow, and Otley; (Manor House, the residence of Matthew Wilson, Esq.) 8 miles from Harewood, 10 from Leeds, Bingley and Bradford, 12 from Keighley, and Ripley, 13 from Knaresborough, 15 from Skipton, 16 from Wetherby, 28 from York, 208 from London. Market, Friday. Fairs, first Monday after August 2, for horses and horned cattle; Friday between new and old Martinmas day for hiring servants; Fortnight Fairs on Fridays, for horned cattle and sheep. Principal Inns, White Horse, Black Horse, and New Inn. Pop. 3,065. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints (see Churches for photograph), in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, ~£13. 1s. 8d. p.r. !£128." (There is further information for Otley).

Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.

Baildon Bramhope Burley In Wharfedale Clifton Denton Dunkirk

Farnley Greenholme Hawksworth Kayley Hall Lindley Little Timble

Menston Newall Pool Scalebor Swinsty Hall Upper Denton

Census

• The Burley Census website provides free access to a database containing the complete census results for the village of Burley In Wharfedale taken on Sunday 31st March 1901. The website allows the user to search the database by surname, house, birthplace, occupation or street map. Comprehensive Census statistics are also included and show a snapshot of life in the village over 100 years ago.

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
  • All Saints' Church, Otley (view 1).
  • All Saints' Church, Otley (view 2).
  • All Saints' Church, Otley (view 3).
  • United Reform Church, Otley.
  • The Methodist Church, Otley.
  • The Roman Catholic Church, Otley.
  • St. John the Evangelist's Church, Baildon.
  • St. Mary the Blessed Virgin's Church, Burley in Wharfedale.
  • St. Mary the Blessed Virgin's Church, Burley in Wharfedale.
  • The Methodist Church, Burley in Wharfedale.
  • The Roman Catholic Church, Burley in Wharfedale.
  • St. Helen's Church, Denton.
  • All Saints' Church, Farnley.
  • St. Giles Church, Bramhope (view 1).
  • St. Giles Church, Bramhope (view 2).
  • St. Giles' Church, Bramhope (view 3).
  • The Methodist Church, Bramhope.
  • The Puritan Chapel, Bramhope.
  • St. Wilfrid's Church, Pool (view 1).
  • St. Wilfrid's Church, Pool (view 2).
  • The Methodist Church, Pool.
  • The ex-Methodist Chapel, Clifton (now a house).
  • The Church of St. John the Divine, Menston.
  • The Church of St. John the Divine, Menston (perhaps they are trying to hide the church?).
  • The Methodist Church, Menston (ex Wesleyan).
  • The Cemetery Chapel, Menston.
• The following Churches have their own websites:
  • United Reform Church, Otley
  • The Methodist Church, Otley
  • The Church of St. John the Divine, Menston

Church Records

• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Baildon.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Burley in Wharfedale.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Denton.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Otley.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Pool.

Description and Travel

• Garry Stockdill's Yorksview website contains a description and photographs of Otley.
• Bramhope & Carlton Parish Council.
• The Burley in Wharfedale community web-site contains detailed current information about Burley, along with a photo gallery etc.

Directories

• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Baines's Directory and Gazetteer Directory of 1822.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Pigot's Directory of 1829.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Pigot's Directory of 1834.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in White's Directory of 1837.

Gazetteers

• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1829 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1834 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from White's 1837 Gazetteer, History and Directory of the West Riding.
• There is further information about this parish from National Gazetteer 1868 Yorkshire extracts.

Maps

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• For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
• For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
• Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
• View maps of Otley and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Names (Geographical)

• The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
  • (SE240427) Abbey House
  • (SE224501) Buttoner House
  • (SE155444) Burley Woodhead
  • (SE205453) Cambridge
  • (SE203480) Carr Side
  • (SE208474) Mount Pleasant
  • (SE200476) Newall Carr Side
  • (SE237434) Old Bramhope
  • (SE248439) Staircase House
  • (SE204446) White House

Societies

• This parish is covered by the following Society:
  • Wharfedale FHG