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| Name | Wheatley (Calderdale) |
| Type | Village, Urban district |
| Coordinates | 53.7393°N 1.8802°W |
| Located in | West Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974) |
| Also located in | West Yorkshire, England (1974 - ) | | Yorkshire, England |
| See also | Ovenden, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | | | Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | county borough in which it was located until 1974 | | Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England | metropolitan borough of which it has been a part since 1974 |
- source: Family History Library Catalog
NOTE: Another place named Wheatley is a ward in Doncaster (now in South Yorkshire).
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Wheatley from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "WHEATLEY, a village in Ovenden township, [West Riding of] Yorkshire; 1½ mile NW of Ovenden village. It has worsted mills, bleaching-works, and dye-houses."
GENUKI states that Wheatley was in the township of Ovenden, and the ecclesiastical parish of Halifax in the Morley division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley. The civil parish of Ovenden was absorbed into Halifax Municipal/County Borough in 1894.
Research Tips
- GENUKI on Wheatley. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
- The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Halifax provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
- A Vision of Britain through Time on Wheatley.
- A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for what is now South Yorkshire, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (the southern part of Bradford, the southern part of Leeds, the southern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the southern part of Selby, Goole Rural District, and all the divisions of Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield)
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
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