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Numbers in brackets give the number of pages referenced when greater than one.
- A
- Agistment,
- Ale Taster, (2)
- Ashburn, Christopher,
- Astley, Gilbert,
- Atkinson, Joseph,
- B
- Baptists,
- Particular, (4)
- General, (3)
- Bayes, Alfred W,
- Beacons,
- Berewicks, (3)
- Bloomeries,
- Bobbin mill at Hough Stones and Cornholme,
- Bordars, (5)
- Bride Stones,
- Brigantes, (2)
- Bronze age,
- Brooke, Robert,
- Buckley's mill, (3)
- Buckley Wood,
- C
- Calder, bridges over, (2)
- Camden,
- Canals, the first,
- Carboniferous limestone, (3)
- Carr House Fold, (2)
- Carucate,
- Celtic graveyard, Butt Stones, (2)
- Celts, Brythonic, (2)
- Centre Vale, (3)
- Certificates of Settlement, "
- Chantries, Heptonstall, (2)
- Chapel house in Stansfield, (4)
- Charter day,
- Chartist movement, (3)
- Children in mills, hours of, (2)
- Christ Church, school and parsonage (2)
- Christianity, introduction of,
- Churchwardens' accounts, (2)
- Civil wars in West Riding, (4)
- Clegg, Richard,
- Cloth halls, at Halifax, (3)
- at Heptonstall, (2)
- at Rochdale, (2)
- Coal Measures, (2)
- Constables' accounts, (4)
- Constable, duties of township, (2)
- Co operative movement, beginning of (2)
- Corn mills in
- Cornholme,
- Cotton industry, development of, (2)
- Court Baron,
- Cowell, Rev. Joseph,
- Cross Stone Chapel, (5)
- Crossley, Alderman,
- Anthony, (2)
- David,
- of Scaitcliffe, family of, (2)
- Crowther, J, of Walsden,
- D
- Darney, William,
- Day Schools, Establishment of, (2)
- Defoe's description of Halifax parish
- Deira, Anglian kingdom of,
- Dewsbury, William,
- Dialect, (4)
- Domesday Book, (2)
- Domestic system of manufacture,
- Druids,
- E
- Earth Circle, ancient,
- Education Act of 1870,
- Edwin,
- Elmet, forest of, (3)
- Erringden township, (6)
- Ethelburga,
- Ethelfrith,
- F
- Factory Acts, (3)
- Schools, introduction of,
- System, development of, (2)
- Cruelties of, (2)
- Farmhouses in 17th century,
- Fault in Todmorden,
- Fawcett, Dr,
- Ferrar, Bishop of St. David's,
- Feudalism, rise of, (2)
- effect of Norman Conquest on (2)
- Fielden and Travis of Clough mill,
- Art School,
- Bros. Ltd,
- family of,
- Hospital,
- John, M. P, (8)
- Joshua, (4)
- Luke,
- monument,
- Mrs. Samuel, (3)
- Flint implements, (3)
- Foresters, position of,
- Forests, importance in Norman times
- punishments for offences in,
- Foster, John,
- Friends, see Quakers Fulling mills, early,
- G
- Gaddens reservoirs,
- Gallows, right of,
- Gamel, (2)
- Gas, supply of,
- Gastrell, Bishop, (2)
- Gibbet law,
- Gibson, Samuel,
- Glacial Drift deposits, (3)
- Golden Lion Inn, (2)
- Gorpley reservoir,
- Government, Celtic and Anglian methods compared, (2)
- Great House in Stansfield, (2)
- Grimshaw, William, (3)
- Guardians, Board of, (2)
- H
- Halifax, (9)
- Church; (2)
- parish, value of Church lands in
- Hammerton, Mr, (2)
- Hardman, Dr, (2)
- Harley Wood Church,
- Hebden Bridge, growth of,
- Heptonstall, (5)
- during Civil War, (2)
- Methodism in, (2)
- Chapel, (10)
- Chapelry, (2)
- Grammar School, (3)
- Heywood, Oliver, of Coley Chapel, (2)
- Heyworth, Dr. Heyworth, (2)
- Hipping bequest, (2)
- Holme, (2)
- Horsfall, Lieut, (2)
- Houses in the 14th century,
- 16th and 17th century, (2)
- Hoyle, J. P, Caleb,
- Hundreds,
- I
- Industrial revolution, et seq
- Ingham, William,
- Instaurator,
- Iron smelting in 14th century,
- J
- Jackman, Mr,
- K
- Krabtree, Henry, Curate of Todmorden (5)
- Land, measurement of,
- Bovate,
- Carucate, (4)
- Hide, (2)
- Law, Robert, F. G. S, (3)
- Langfield township, (4)
- Legend of Lady Sybil of Bernshaw Tower, (2)
- Lewes, Priory of, (4)
- Lincoln, Henry de Lacy, Earl of, (2)
- Lineholme Baptist Chapel, (2)
- Local Board Districts,
- Long Causeway,
- Loyal Association in Elizabeth's reign
- M
- Mackworth, Sir Francis, (3)
- Maiden Cross,
- Mankinholes, (5)
- Manor Courts, Local, business of, (3)
- Mabors,
- Maps, ordnance,
- Markets in
- Medieval times, buildings in, (2)
- farming in,
- markets,
- prices in, (2)
- rents in, (2)
- wages in,
- wool growing in,
- Merlinus Rusticus, (2)
- Methodists, first,
- Midgeley, Joseph, (3)
- Richard, (2)
- township, (2)
- Militia bounties,
- Millstone grit (3)
- Kinderscout, (4)
- Middle, (4)
- Rough Rock, (2)
- Mineral wealth,
- Mining industry in Middle Ages, (2)
- Mitchell, William,
- Monasteries,
- Mount Cross, (2)
- N
- Neolithic man, (2)
- Normans, influence of, in building churches,
- Nowell, John,
- O
- Out of school exercises, (3)
- Overseer's accounts, (2)
- Overseers of the Poor in
- P
- Packhorse roads, (2)
- Pannage,
- Parliamentary representation, (2)
- Patmos Chapel, (2)
- Paulinus,
- Paupers, treatment of, (2)
- Pennine Chain, (5)
- Pilgrimage of Grace
- Pinder,
- Pinfold,
- Place names, (5)
- Plague,
- Plug drawers,
- Police, opposition to County, (2)
- Pollard's bequest,
- Poll Tax, Richard II's reign,
- Poorhouses in
- century, (2)
- Poor Law Amendment Act, (2)
- Post Office, the first,
- Power looms, introduction of, (2)
- Presbyterianism in Todmorden, (5)
- Press gang,
- Prior's Court,
- Pronunciation, local,
- Protestantism, beginning of local,
- Puritanism, growth of, (5)
- Q
- Quakers or Friends, (5)
- burial grounds,
- meeting houses. (2)
- sufferings of, (2)
- R
- Radcliffe, family of, (6)
- Railway, construction of, (2)
- Ramsbotham, Thomas,
- Ramsbottom, Henry,
- Recedham ( Rochdale),
- Reform movement, (2)
- Ridgefoot mill,
- Ripon,
- Roads, construction and repair of, (2)
- Rochdale Grammar School, (2)
- Rodhill End Chapel, (4)
- Roger of Poitou, (3)
- Roman Catholic services illegal,
- Roman coins, (2)
- entrenchments,
- roads, (4)
- Russell, Dr,
- S
- St. Peter's Church, Walsden,
- Salford, Hundred of, (3)
- Sandal Magna, Church at,
- Scholefield, Jonathan, Curate of Cross Stone, (3)
- School Board, the first,
- Serfs,
- Sewage disposal works, (2)
- Ship money, (2)
- Shore Baptist Chapel, (2)
- Smith, Richard,
- Sokemen, (3)
- Sowerby township, (2)
- Spring Gardens Inn, (2)
- Standing, James,
- Stansfield, Abraham,
- family of, (3)
- hall,
- mill,
- township, (6)
- Steam factory, the first, (2)
- Stoodley Pike, (2)
- Sunday Schools, (2)
- Superstitions, local, (3)
- Surnames, beginning of, (5)
- Surveyor of highways, duties of,
- Surveyor's accounts, (2)
- T
- Taylor, Dan,
- Todmorden " Advertiser, "
- animals, (2)
- changes in local government, (2)
- Chapel ( St. Mary's), (9)
- climate,
- coaches, (2)
- Co operative Society, (3)
- cricket field, first,
- death rate,
- elevations, principal, (2)
- Endowed School, (2)
- fairs, (2)
- flowers, (2)
- Free Library, (2)
- Hall, (3)
- hills, (2)
- in 18th century,
- in 19th century, (2)
- Literary Society,
- markets,
- mayors,
- Mechanics' Institute,
- municipal debt,
- name, first mention of,
- National School,
- Old Library,
- parishes,
- parliamentary divisions,
- pastimes,
- Political Union, (2)
- Todmorden, population, (6)
- rainfall,
- religious life in, (2)
- Scientific Society,
- Secondary School, (2)
- Town Hall,
- township divisions, (2)
- Urban Sanitary District, (2)
- waterworks, (2)
- Towneley, Charles,
- Township records, (2)
- Turnpike road, the first, (2)
- U
- Ulnagers,
- Unitarian Chapel, (2)
- V
- Villeins, (7)
- Volunteer movement, (2)
- W
- Wadsworth township, (6)
- Wager of law,
- Wages in the 14th century,
- Wakefield Church,
- Wapentakes,
- Warley township, (2)
- Warren, family of, Earls of Surrey
- first earl,
- second earl, (3)
- fifth earl, (3)
- Waterside mill, (3)
- Wesley, John, (3)
- Wesleyan Chapel, Doghouse,
- West Lodge,
- Whitehart Fold,
- Whitehead, James,
- Wilkinson, Mr, of Burnley,
- Wilson, Lawrence,
- Witchcraft, belief in,
- Wolves in the 14th century,
- Woollen manufacture, (6)
- Workhouses, opposition to, (2)
- Working classes in early 19th century condition of,
- Yoredale rocks, (4)
- Yorkshire, invasion of, by Angles and Danes, (5)
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