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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Sunny Bank - Calderdale? Where or What is it?
« on: Tuesday 04 November 14 14:09 GMT (UK)  »
Karen

Hi again. Just looking through my notes on Cowcliffe and have come across the following:

William Pitchforth Cropper of Cowcliffe was a Trustee for Cowcliffe Chapel ( Weslyan) 1837. Croppers were cloth finishers using an implement. Improved machinery from 1811 - 1817 (Luddites) resulted in many being thrown out of work. Information for this came from the Cowcliffe Methodist Church and Sunday School ' Reminiscences and Associations 1836-1936 '

Solomon Pitchforth Cowcliffe Woolstapler April 20th 1869 was described as a Parochial Constable. Not sure if he is one of your ancestors.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Sunny Bank - Calderdale? Where or What is it?
« on: Wednesday 01 October 14 11:20 BST (UK)  »
Karen
This was my explanation which is possibly irrelevant now but here goes.

Cowcliffe boundaries have always been unclear. Fixby for many years was in Halifax and then in a Boundary change became Huddersfield. Need to check date but possibly early 1920's.

According to the HDFHS Fixby census return A-Z index 1841/51 published in 1992 states the following: Fixby a township in the Parish of Halifax had a population of 399.

Unfortunately the Cowcliffe area was very much divided by a parliamentary boundary, one side  was owned by the Thornhills  (Fixby) and the other by the Ramsdens (Huddersfield). The Inn (1837). Methodist Church (1836) and  St Hilda's Church (1850's) School were all on the Ramsden land.

Although your ancestor is mentioned on the document it is not possible to exactly say were he was living but it was probably adjacent to this boundary

The boundary passed very close to Ivy House Farm probably passing through the land surrounding it which might explain why it has been counted twice. This area is now a residential road although Ivy House still exists and there are pictures of it on the internet. I believe it was built on in the 1950's.
Trying to send part of the perambulation information, all is much too large.
Wynb

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Pitchforth Perambulation
« on: Monday 29 September 14 10:59 BST (UK)  »
Karen

Perambulation means "walking around". In traditional English law, it is used specifically to mean "determining the bounds of a legal area by walking around it", meaning physically walking around the region in question. It was land owned by the Thornhills who owned Fixby Hall.  Robert Oastler and then Richard Oastler  ( Factory King) were the estate managers during William Pitchforths life.

Most of the roads didn't have names so they used people's homes or well established trees and Boundary stones and points of the compass  for the direction they walked, to define the area. I do have a copy of the document if I can send it you. I am new to all this.

Wynb

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Sunny Bank - Calderdale? Where or What is it?
« on: Sunday 28 September 14 18:00 BST (UK)  »
Karen

There was a Sunny Bank in Cowcliffe. It was a Farm and land which was sold for housing in the 1960's. The last farmers were Armitages. It is now called York Avenue estate and is to the right off Cowcliffe Hill Road. There is a Birklands Road to the left and almost opposite a road to the right. Huddersfield the nearest town is just short of two miles away. At the top of Cowcliffe Hill is Cowcliffe/Fixby Park/ Fixby. I live on Fixby Park and have done a lot of history on the area.

The Pitchfords are mentioned on the Perambulation on the 26th October 1809 when it says 'they turned Westward by the wall on the South side to a house occupied by William Pitchforth and forward' We have worked it out to be somewhere near North Cross road or near the Shepherds Public House which is dated about 1838. It's not the original building but I believe on the same site. Wyn

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