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IDLE, a village, a township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict, in Bradford district, W. R. Yorkshire. The Village stands on a declivity on the S side of Airedale, adjacent to the Leeds and Liverpool canal and to the river Aire, 3 miles N by E of Bradford; is large and irregularly built; carries on a very considerable woollen cloth manufacture; and has a post office‡ under Leeds, and two annual cattle fairs. A railway from it to Bradford was authorised in 1866; and another from that line to Shipley, 2½ miles, in 1867.- The township contains also the village of Windhill, and the hamlets of Thackley, Thorpe-Green, Parkhill, Cross-Keys, Buckmill, and Wrose; and is in Calverley parish. Acres, 2, 420. Real property, £21, 003; of which £124 are in mines, and £2, 480 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 7, 118; in 1861, 9, 155. Houses, 2, 056. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of the woollen cloth manufacture. The manor belongs to W. R.Stansfield, Esq.—The chapelry is conterminate with the township. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300.* Patron, the Vicar of Calverley. The church was built in 1830; is in the later English style; and has a pinnacled tower. There are two chapels for Independents, three for Wesleyans, and one each for Churchmen, Baptists, Primitive Methodists, and Unitarians. There are likewise a mechanics, institute, a young men's church institute, two national schools, and two British schools. There was an Independent theological academy, but it was removed to Bradford.—The sub-district contains also another township of Calverley, and one of Bradford. Acres, 4, 226. Pop., 14, 574. Houses, 3, 310.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Bradford RegD/PLU/PLPar Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Idle |
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