Dewsbury
Parish in the County of West Riding of Yorkshire
Etymology
Of the two townships of this detached portion of Dewsbury parish in Morley Wapentake (v. ii, 184supra ), Clifton is now in Brighouse Municipal Borough (v. Halifax parish 34infra ) and Hartshead in Spenborough Urban District (v. Birstall parish 8infra ).
Major Settlements
Other places in this Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Alegar Bank Wood
- Birkby Hall, Birkby Lane (Head)
- Birk Hey Wood
- Birkhouse
- Blake Law
- Brake Head
- Brier Hill
- Cam Lane
- Cannon Hall
- Castle Hill
- Cherry Hall
- Clifton Beck
- Clifton Common
- Clifton Wood (Head)
- Clough
- Coal Pit Lane
- Coates Pit
- Cock Walk Wood
- Common End
- Doles Lane
- Flatts Pit
- Gin Pit Hill
- Green Fm
- Harefield Fm
- Harts Hole
- High Moor Lane
- Hole Bottom
- Jay Ho
- Kirklees Hall, Kirklees Park
- Lawn Wood
- The Lees
- Lower Hall
- Manor Ho
- Mill Hill Lane
- Nun Bank Wood
- Nun Brook
- Oak Hill Bank
- Obelisk Grove
- Ox Pit
- Pond Fm
- Robin Hood's Grave
- Rock Hole
- Town Gate
- Walton Cross
- Whinchat Hall
- Whitaker Pits
- Windy Bank
- Woodhead Well
- Beggerington
- Brook Shrogg
- Church Fm
- Common Bottom, Common Side
- Cross Hill Lane
- Crow Trees
- Dockentail
- Fall Fm
- Freak Field Lane
- Hartshead Hall
- Hollin Wood
- Lady Well
- Little Thorpe
- Littleworth
- Park Bottom
- Parkin Hall
- Peep Green Lane
- School Green
- Sepulchre
- Soap Ho
- Stocks
- Stubbins Plant
- Swamp Lane
- Yewtree Ho