A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BRAMLEY, a village an and a township-chapelry in Leeds parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax railway, near the Leeds and Liverpool canal, 4 miles NW by W of Leeds; and it has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Leeds.—The chapelry comprises 2,331 acres. Real property, £27,824. Pop., 8,690. Houses, 1,957. The property is much subdivided. Cloth manufacture is carried on; and excellent stone is quarried. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £239.* Patron, the Vicar of Leeds. The church was rebuilt in 1863, at a cost of £6,000. There are four dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, an endowed school with £28 a year, and charities £73.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Leeds AP/CP Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Bramley |
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