In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Briers like this:
BRIER'S, or St. Anne's-in-the-grove, a chapelry, with a village, in Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near the Manchester and Leeds railway, 3¼ miles ESE of Halifax. Post Town, Halifax. Rated property, £15,517. Pop., 6,570. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £160.* Patron, the Vicar of Halifax. The church is tolerable.
The location is that of the building marked as Brier Lodge on the Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map of Yorkshire of 1893, accessible on old-maps.co.uk. "Brier Top Delph is marked on the same map just to the south. "Brier Lane" still exists today, and leads up towards these locations from the river Calder. The modern church of St Anne-in-the-Grove is about half a mile to the west, on the edge of Southowram. Additional information about this locality is available for Southowram
Briers through time
Briers is now part of Calderdale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Calderdale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Briers itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Briers, in Calderdale and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25415
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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