Whitley, North Yorkshire

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Whitley
Location within North Yorkshire
Population1,021 (2011 census) [1]
OS grid reference SE561212
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town GOOLE
Postcode district DN14
Dialling code 01977
Police North Yorkshire
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53°41′03″N1°09′06″W / 53.68429°N 1.15163°W / 53.68429; -1.15163

Whitley is a village in North Yorkshire, England, close to the Aire and Calder Navigation and the M62 motorway. The population of the village at the 2001 census was recorded as being 574, [2] which had risen to 1,021 by the time of the 2011 census. [1] In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to have risen again to 1,110. [3] It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. [4] From 1974 to April 2023 it was in the Selby District of North Yorkshire.

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History

The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Witelai, [5] with the name deriving from the Old English words of hwīt and lēah, meaning White wood clearing. [6] The village is located on the A19 road, south of its intersection with the M62 Motorway at Junction 34, [7] 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Snaith and 7 miles (11 km) north east of Pontefract. [8] [9] The village is served by Whitley Bridge railway station to the north, but only has one train a day eastwards and only two westwards. [10] [11]

The village has a primary school and a church, the Chapel of All Saints, which was built between 1858 and 1861. [12] [13] A Knights Templar manor is believed to have existed south west of the village between 1248 and 1312. Unlike other Templar possessions which were taken over, when the order was dissolved, Whitley Preceptory was left to ruin. [14]

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south west to Kirk Smeaton with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 4,391. [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Whitley Parish (E04007781)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  2. ↑ UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Whitley Parish (36UH085)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  3. ↑ "2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  4. ↑ "History of Whitley, in Selby and West Riding | Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "Whitley | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  6. ↑ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 514. ISBN   0-19-869103-3.
  7. ↑ "Ferrybridge to Pollington (J33 to East of J34)". www.ukmotorwayarchive.org.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  8. ↑ "History of Whitley, in Selby and West Riding | Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  9. ↑ "Genuki: KELLINGTON: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1868., Yorkshire (West Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  10. ↑ "Whitley Bridge Station Train Tickets, Departures and Timetables | Northern - Northern". www.northernrailway.co.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  11. ↑ "Leeds and Wakefield to Knottingley and Goole" (PDF). d2cf7kiw5xizhy.cloudfront.net. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  12. ↑ "Whitley and Eggborough Community Primary School URN: 121423". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  13. ↑ "Kellington with Whitley". www.kellingtonwithwhitley.org.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  14. ↑ Historic England. "Whitley Thorpe moated Templar grange site, 600m north west of Fulham House (1017458)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  15. ↑ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Whitley Ward (as of 2011) (E05006361)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 4 November 2019.


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