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Aisled Houses in the Halifax Area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Frank Atkinson  and
R. W. McDowall
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The houses with which this paper is concerned belong to the small segment of the eastern slopes of the Pennines known as the ‘Ancient Parish of Halifax’. It is not known when the ‘Ancient Parish’ was formed but the first recorded vicar of Halifax was inducted in 1274 and in that same year the Wakefield Manor Courts ceased to meet in Sowerby Town and made Halifax their centre.

The Ancient Parish covers ten miles of the valley of the river Calder and its tributaries, Halifax itself lying on the Hebble. The area is bleak; it lies, all except the extreme eastern part, on Millstone Grit and rises from a height of some 200 feet above sea level in the valley to an altitude of 1,400 feet. The old settlements mostly lie on the sloping hillsides at an average height of 700 feet.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , March 1967 , pp. 77 - 94
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1967

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