In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Haley Hill like this:
HALEY-HILL, a village and a chapelry in Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village is in North Owram township, and suburban to Halifax, on the town's NE side. The chapelry was constituted in 1855; and its post town is Halifax. Pop. in 1861, 5, 235. Houses, 1, 124. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. ...
Value, £230.* Patron, Lieu. col. Akroyd. The church was built in 1859, at the cost of E. Akroyd, Esq., after designs by G. G. Scott; stands on an eminence, figuring conspicuously in the landscape of town and country; is in the geometrical decorated style, of the time of Edward I.; comprises nave, with aisles terminated eastward by transepts, and chancel, with chapels on the N and S sides; has a very graceful tower and spire, 236 feet high; is ornamented with marble, serpentine, and alabaster, and with many hagiological sculptures; and has a pulpit of Caen stone. A House of Mercy was erected in 1866.
Haley Hill through time
Haley Hill is now part of Calderdale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Calderdale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Haley Hill itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Haley Hill, in Calderdale and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21445
Date accessed: 03rd May 2024
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