Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FARNLEY-TYAS

FARNLEY-TYAS, a township-chapelry in Almondbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 1½ mile E by N of Berry-Brow r. station, and 4 SE by S of Huddersfield. It contains the hamlets of Farnley-Hey and Woodsome-Lees. Post town, Almondbury, under Huddersfield. Acres, 1, 623. Real property, £2, 307. Pop., 702. Houses, 151. Buildingstone and coal are worked. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £100. Patron, the Earl of Dartmouth. The church is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Almondbury AP/CP       Farnley Tyas CP/Tn       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Farnley Tyas

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