Settlements in Yorkshire

Flockton

Jul 4, 2022Daisy GraceSettlements in Yorkshire

Rural village stretched out along the Barnsley to Huddersfield road in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, taking its name from a Viking settler.

West Bretton

Apr 28, 2022Daisy GraceSettlements in Yorkshire

Village and civil parish in the Wakefield District of West Yorkshire.

Elsecar

Feb 6, 2022Daisy GraceCoal mining, Ironworks & foundries, Model villages, Settlements in Yorkshire

Former mining village in South Yorkshire, six miles north of Rotherham and six south of Barnsley.

Scammonden

Sep 17, 2020Daisy GraceSettlements in Yorkshire

A Pennine village that was flooded in the 1960s when Scammonden Dam and the M62 trans-Pennine motorway were constructed.

Sitlington

Aug 29, 2020Daisy GraceSettlements in Yorkshire

Ancient township of four villages, renamed from Shitlington to Sitlington in 1929.

Grange Moor

Aug 17, 2020Daisy GraceSettlements in Yorkshire

Tract of moorland more than 700 feet above sea level that gave its name to Grange Moor, a residential village.

Akroydon

Jul 28, 2018Daisy GraceModel villages, Settlements in Yorkshire

Model village developed near Edward Akroyd’s Bankfield mansion in Haley Hill, Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The houses are in blocks of six to ten around the park in streets named after cathedral cities.

Copley

Jul 26, 2018Daisy GraceModel villages, Settlements in Yorkshire

Model village built by Colonel Edward Akroyd in the Calder Valley to the south of Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.