Publications which contain useful material on the history of Burley-in-Wharfedale.
 

The publications below are available on loan from both Burley and Ilkley libraries:
 


 

Burley Community Council, Village Design Statement, 1999.

 

Burley Community Council, The 1999 Village Handbook.

 

Edmund Bogg, Two Thousand Miles in Wharfedale, John Heywood, London, 1904.

 

F. W. M. Newbould, A Short History of the Parish Church of Saint Mary The Blessed Virgin, Burley-in-Wharfedale, 1993.

 

T. Wemyss Reid, Life of the Rt. Hon. W.E. Forster, 2 Volumes, 4th Edition, Chapman and Hall, London, 1888. Reprinted in 1970 by Adams and Dart, Bath.

 

H. Speight, Upper Wharfedale, Elliot Stock, 1900.

 

John Ward, Discovering the Yorkshire Dales, Smith Settle, Otley, 1996.

 

D. & M. Warwick, eds., Burley-in-Wharfedale in Times Past , Countryside Publications, 1985.

 

M. Warwick, Greenholme Mills Remembered, Burley Local History Group, 1988.

 

M. & D. Warwick, Eminent Victorians, The Forsters of Burley-in-Wharfedale, Burley Local History Group, 1994.

 

M. & D. Warwick, Our Schools: A History of Schools in Burley-in-Wharfedale, Burley Local History Group, 1998.

 

M. & D. Warwick, Burley: A Millennium Book, Burley Local History Group, 1999.

 

A video, Burley-in-Wharfedale: Past, Present and Future, which was prepared for the Village Design Statement, showing time approximately 17 minutes, is also available from Burley library.