In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Upper Hopton like this:
HOPTON, a village in Mirfield parish, and a chapelry partly also in Kirkheaton parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Calder, near the Manchester and Leeds railway, 3 miles NE of Huddersfield; and has a post office under Normanton. -The chapelry was constituted in 1860. Pop., 1, 211. Houses, 238. Pop. of the Mirfield portion, 696. Houses, 139. The woollen manufacture is carried on. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £141. Patron, the Vicar of Mirfield. The church was built in 1846. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.
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Upper Hopton through time
Upper Hopton is now part of Kirklees district. Click here for graphs and data of how Kirklees has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Upper Hopton itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Upper Hopton, in Kirklees and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25779
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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