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Yorkshire. 53°44′57″N 1°36′08″W / . 53.749166°N 1.602263°W. / 53.749166; -1.602263. Morley is a market town and a civil parish within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England. Morley is the largest town in the borough after Leeds itself. Morley forms part of the Heavy Woollen District .
Morley is a market town and civil parish within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England. It is located approximately 5 miles south-west of Leeds city centre. Morley is the largest town in the Borough of Leeds after Leeds itself. The town is famous for its historic architecture including the Town Hall and the Morley ...
West Riding. Home / Yorkshire / West Riding / Morley Yorkshire Family History Guide. Morley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1831 from Batley Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Stump Cross, Howley Hall, Four Lane Ends, and Bruntcliffe Thorne. Alternative names: Batley St Peter.
Morley is a market town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, about five miles south-west of Leeds city centre. The town is built on seven hills (though there its resemblance to Rome finishes), named Scatcherd Hill, Dawson Hill, Daisy Hill, Chapel Hill, Hunger Hill, Troy Hill and Banks Hill. Morley is first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, as ...
Wapentakes of the West Riding. Agbrigg is labelled 11 on the map, and Morley is labelled 6. Agbrigg and Morley was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The main purpose of the wapentake was the administration of justice by a local court. At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, Agbrigg and Morley were separate wapentakes.
The West Riding of Yorkshire was one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the riding was an administrative county named County of York, West Riding. The lieutenancy at that time included the city of York and as such was named "West Riding of the County of York and the County of the City of York". [2]
MORLEY, a small town, a township, a chapelry, a sub-district, and a wapentake, in W. R. Yorkshire.The town stands on the Gildersome branch of the Great Northern railway, 4½ miles SW by S of Leeds; carries on woollen manufacture, and some trade in connexion with mines; is governed by a board of surveyors; and has a post office ‡ under Leeds, a railway station, a mechanics' institute, public reading-rooms, a church, four dissenting chapels, a national school used also as a chapel of ease ...
