Place:


Stansfield  West Riding

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stansfield like this:

STANSFIELD, a township, of three divisions, in Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Calder, the Rochdale canal, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 4½ miles W of Halifax. It has post-offices under Todmorden; and it contains Crosstone church, three dissenting chapels, and a national school. ...


Acres, 5,920. Real property, £25,419; of which £570 are in quarries, and £250 in gasworks. Pop. in 1851,7,627; in 1861, 8,174. Houses, 1,671. The manor belongs to the Earl of Scarborough. Much of the land is moor. Cotton-spinning, silk-spinning, and iron-founding are carried on.

Stansfield through time

Stansfield is now part of Calderdale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Calderdale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stansfield itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stansfield, in Calderdale and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21656

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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