In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Milnsbridge like this:
MILNSBRIDGE, a chapelry partly in Longwood township, chiefly in Linthwaite township, Almondbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Huddersfield, Sheffield and Holmfirth railway, in the southern vicinity of Huddersfield. It was constituted in 1846; and its Post town is Huddersfield. The acreage is returned with the parish. ...
Rated property, £7,667. Pop., 2,903. Houses, 631. The property is divided among a few. The living isis a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury. The church has a bell turret. There are a Baptist chapel, a mechanics' institution, and a national school.
Milnsbridge through time
Milnsbridge is now part of Kirklees district. Click here for graphs and data of how Kirklees has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Milnsbridge itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Milnsbridge, in Kirklees and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21543
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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