Sunny Bank - Calderdale? Where or What is it?

[karen58]

Hi
I have a burial record for Hannah PITCHFORTH, nee HANSON, buried 14 Feb 1833 at Woodhouse, Christ Church. The records lists her place of abode as Sunny Bank.

Hannah married Joseph PITCHFORTH, 20 Jun 1830 at Huddersfield.

Hannah was born at Fartown and Joseph was born at Fixby. Joseph was living at Cowcliffe by the 1841 census and remained their until he died. So I have been trying to find something in these areas.

The only place I can find near the Cowcliffe/Fartown area is the Sunnybank preschool on Saddleworth Road at Greetland and I'm certain that is not it.

Does anyone have what Sunny Bank could be?

Anything would be appreciated
Warm regards
Karen

[Mike in Cumbria]

There are Sunnybank Roads in Mirfield and Brighouse - neither are very far from Fartown. I think there's one in Halifax too, from memory. Obviously quite a common local placename, so there may have been others in the area.

[Mike in Cumbria]

There's also one off Edgerton Road (near Huddersfield Royal Infirmery), which might be nearer than the Mirfield or Brighouse Sunnybanks.

Mike

[karen58]

Hello Mike
Thank you for your help. There are a few Sunny Bank Roads and conceivable Mirfield and Brighouse Roads could be the correct location.

Warm Regards
Karen

[Wynb]

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

[dobfarm]

Wynb is right!

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html

In the link page above

Enter in the search box top left  Knaresborough drive, Huddersfield

then right click on -go

A list of house numbers for Karesborough drive will come up in blue

Right Click on one of them

Next page

on the right menu, you will see - All Available maps

Under the words -All Available maps - you will see the 1854 map box-right click on the blue box -Enlarge map -Right  Click this box

Next page

In the left to middle big box -a big view 1854 black and white map will have appeared

Your cursor will have a + plus sign on it-click once and a closer view will appear with a minus sign on the cursor now.

(A magnifying glass my help here.)

Using the slide bars find the extra big * Huddersfield * lettering across the map

Under the letters H and U in HUDDERSFIELD you will see SunnyBank farm

Above the letter F in HUDDERSFIELD across the map you will see Christ church Woodhouse.

Hope it helps.

[karen58]

Hello Wynb and dobfarm
Thank you so much for your help, I am very grateful. This information is very helpful indeed and I feel confident that this is the Sunny Bank referred to on the burial register.

I have been searching that map for weeks now without success - only eye strain. I don't know how you did it. You are both brilliant.

You can do away with the magnifying glass by hitting the control key and the + key on your keyboard two or three of times, to enlarge the image on the screen. This helps a lot. To revert to normal image size just hit the control key and the - key two or three times.

Thank you again

Warm Regards
Karen

[dobfarm]

Hi Karen,

Glad you know the keyboard keys method to zoom in/out

Though I thought is would be easier to say have a magnifying glass, than explain the keyboard method on top of and not to take your attention off the more important old maps usage instuctions to find that farm.

regards
Dobby

[Wynb]

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