Burley in Wharfedale village history

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Introduction

• A Brief History
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Articles

• How Governed
• Growth of Village
• The History Trail

Burley Census

• Birth Places
• Age Groups
• The Vicar of Burley
• – 1861,71,81,91
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A Mill Village

• Introduction
• Map of 1895
• The Mills
• The Fisons
• The Forsters
• The “Rec”
• Malt Shovel
• Burley Forge

Benefactors

• The Forsters
• The Fisons

Burley Woodhead

• The Hamlet
• Woodhead School
• Bleach Mill
• Woodhead Green
• Moorville House
• The Forge

Burley Characters

• Introduction
• C.I. Black
• J.P. Clapham
• Job Senior
• T. Clark
• W. Lawrence
• J. Lupton
• J. H. Foulds

Notable Buildings

• Drawings
• Group of Photos
• The Roundhouse
• Lecture Hall

Victorian Schools

• Township School
• National School
• Greenholme Mills

The Malt Shovel

With industrialisation came the modernisation of Burley, instanced by changes in the Malt Shovel

Before

In the 1880s the spanking new Malt Shovel Hotel was built, though the defunct pudding tree was retained. The owners hoped to attract some of the tourist trade which had come to Wharfedale and particularly Ilkley, with the opening of the railway in 1865

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After

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