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Wortley (/ ˈwɜːtli / WURT-lee) is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It begins one mile to the west of the city centre. The appropriate City of Leeds ward is called Farnley and Wortley. It was known as Wirkelay until about 1700.
Wortley, West Riding of Yorkshire [Bibliography] Up to 1834. A parliamentary report of 1777 recorded local workhouses in operation at Wortley (for up to 35 inmates), Bradfield (60), and Ecclesfield (60).
WORTLEY, a village, a township-chapelry, a sub-district, and a district, in W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on an eminence, adjacent to the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 6 miles SSW of Barnsley; and has a post-office‡ under Sheffield, and a r. station.
Wortley West Riding. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wortley like this: WORTLEY, a large village, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Hunslet district, W.-R. Yorkshire.
Wortley is a village in the West Riding of Yorkshire. At the 2011 census it had a population of 626 at the 2011 Census. The village appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Wirtleie. Wortley grew up as a village where the Sheffield to Halifax road crossed the Cheshire to Rotherham route.
1 day ago · Not to be confused with the community in Leeds with the same name, Wortley is just eight miles north-west of Sheffield city centre, but feels like it is a whole world away from both inner city areas.
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Wortley gives its name to the union, and is distant 3 miles west from Tankersley, 5 south-east from Penistone, 171 from London, 7 from Barnsley, 18 from Huddersfield, 8 ½ from Sheffield, and is separated on the west from Hunshelf (a hamlet of Penistone), by the river Don.
