GENERAL REFERENCES for CHAPTERS 1, 4, 6, 8, 11 & 12
Printed sources
Brierley 1893: Brierley, Harwood, Up South Dean Beck , Leeds Mercury , 23/12/1893.
Dixon n.d.: Dixon, J.H.; Folk Lore with Old Things of the Brontës, of Brontë Land and of ‘Thrums’ , (catalogue of the Wuthering Heights collection at Oatlands), Harrogate n.d. c.1911.
On Dixon see also: Steven Wood, Joseph Henry Dixon’s Oatlands Museum, Harrogate , (January 2016).
Kelly 1889: Kelly & Co, Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire , London, 1889.
KN 1945: Haworth Couple, A Golden Wedding , Keighley News , 21/4/1945
T&A 1948: Far Withens , Telegraph and Argus, 19/11/1948.
Turner 1913: Turner, Whiteley, A Spring-Time Saunter: Round and About Brontë Land , Halifax, 1913.
Whone 1946: Whone, Clifford (ed.); Court Rolls of the Manor of Haworth , Bradford, 1946.
YEP 1921: A Farm at “Wuthering Heights” , Yorkshire Evening Post , 8/9/1921
YEP 1922: Farming on “Wuthering Heights” , Yorkshire Evening Post , 22/4/1922
Documents
(To indicate the source of every item of information would have overwhelmed the text with footnotes. The sources used in the chapters written by SW are listed below.)
Abstracts of Withins Deeds 1567–1891 (KLSL, BK466)
Haworth Township Rating Valuations 1813/14 (CC), 1838, 1851, 1863, 1881 (KLSL)
Haworth Township Supplemental Valuation Lists 1863–1894 (KLSL)
Stanbury Supplemental Valuation Lists 1904, 1905, 1917 , 1934 (KLSL)
Haworth Township Rate Books 1819, 1845, 1849, 1854, 1856, 1858 (KLSL)
Haworth Township Rate Book 1842 (BPM)
Haworth Township Census Returns, 1841–1911 (copies at KLSL).
Haworth Tithe Map c.1850 and Apportionment 1853, WYAS Leeds.
Haworth Parish Registers (WYAS Bradford, copies at KLSL)
Haworth Churchyard Monumental Inscriptions (Margaret Jennings et. al. KLSL)
Electoral Registers (WYAS Wakefield, online at Ancestry.co.uk
, 1919 onwards at KLSL)
Census Returns, Parish Registers etc. outside Haworth were accessed at Ancestry.co.uk
BPM = Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
CC = Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley
KLSL = Keighley Local Studies Library
WYAS = West Yorkshire Archive Service (Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield offices)
NOTES for CHAPTERS 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11 & 12
Chapter 2. Farming at Withins
1 . Long, W.H., ‘Regional Farming in Seventeenth Century Yorkshire’, Agricultural History Review VIII (1960) 103–115.
Chapter 3. Lower Withins
1 . see Jenkins, J.G., The Wool Textile Industry in Great Britain (1972) 67, 73–4, 101–2, 125–6, 162–4 for descriptions of wool textile processes at this period.
2 . Heaton, H., The Yorkshire Woollen and Worsted Industries (Oxford 1965) 197–100 and OED ‘Warping’.
3 . EDD ‘Porty’.
4 . Heaton 342.
Chapter 5. Middle Withins
1 . see Jenkins 85–9 for details of the woolcombing process, also Roth, H.L., Bankfield Museum Notes, No. 6. Hand Woolcombing (Halifax n.d.)
2 . Heaton 338.
3 . Sigsworth, E.M., ‘William Greenwood and Robert Heaton, Two Eighteenth-Century Worsted Manufacturers’ Bradford Textile Society Journal (1952) 66.
Chapter 7. Top Withins
1 . Coppard, J.T., Engledew Sir F. & Hotson, J.Mc.C., An Agricultural Atlas of England & Wales (1976) 39.
2 . Watson, J., The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax (1775).
3 . Watson, 2.
4 . Watson, 536.
5 . Stuart, E., The Brontë Country (London 1888) 171.
6 . Bronte. E., Wuthering Heights (1841) (1965 ed.) 56.
Chapter 10. Life at Top Withins
1 . Watson, B.
2 . Dixon, J. Folklore with Old Things of the Brontës, of Brontë Land and of ‘Thrums’ (Harrogate 1906) nos. 199–200.
3 . Watson, 538, Crump, W.B., The Little Hill Farm in the Calder Valley (London 1949) 45.
4 . Crump. 51.
5 . Crump. 65.
6 . Brontë, E., Wuthering Heights (1847) 56.
7 . Watson, 736.
8 . Watson, 545.
9 . Brears, P., The Old Devon Farmhouse (Tiverton 1998) no. 1432.
10 . Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, no. 740 donated from Elam Grange 15 March 1917. A further example is to be seen at Shibden Hall, Halifax.
11 . Dixon, no. 202.
12 . Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, nos. 275 donated 1 December 1911 and 613 donated in 1918. Halifax Museum Service AH708 and 1934.46 (re–numbered 1963.175).
13 . Gaskell, E., The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) (1975 ed.) 55.
14 . Brears, P., Traditional Food in Yorkshire (Totnes 2014) 104–5.
15 . Dixon, n. 2.
16 . Brontë, E., Wuthering Heights (1847) (1965 ed.) 179.
17 . Travis, J., Notes of Todmorden & District (Rochdale 1896) 118.
18 . Brears (2014) 100–2.
19 . Walton, J., ‘Bakestone Making’ Halifax Courier 30 October 1937.
20 . Crump. 31.
21 . Crump, 30, quoting Easther, A., A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield (1883).
22 . Dixon, no. 5.
23 . Leeds University, Brotherton Library, H. Bedford MS 432/4p.97.
24 . Brontë, 269.
25 . Dixon, Mary Sunderland’s loom no. 16; raddle nos. 75 & 286; Jonas Sunderland’s loom no. 91; swift no. 106; Jonas & Mary Sunderland’s spinning wheel no. 108; false reed no. 221.
Chapter 11. A Walk to the Withins Farms
Bisat 1924: Bisat, W.S.: The Carboniferous Goniatites of the North of England and their Zones , Proc. Y.G.S., New Series, Vol. XX, 1924.
Bowtell 1988: Bowtell, Harold D.; Lesser Railways of Bowland Forest and Craven Country , Croydon, 1988.
Brierley 1928: Brierley, Harwood; The Swamp of Wuthering Heights , newspaper cutting [Leeds Mercury ?] 6 August 1928.
Craven 1907: Craven, Joseph; Stanbury : A Brontë Moorland Village , Keighley, 1907.
Dewhirst 1975: Dewhirst, Ian; Gleanings from Edwardian Yorkshire , Driffield, 1975.
Dixon n.d.: Dixon, J.H.; Folk Lore , (catalogue of the Wuthering Heights collection at Oatlands, Harrogate), n.d. (c. 1911).
Gaskell 1873: Gaskell, E.C.; The Life of Charlotte Brontë , London, 1873.
Gill 2004: Gill, M.C.; Keighley Coal , Sheffield, 2004.
Hall n.d.: Hall, A.E.; Views of Haworth , n.d. (c.1895–1900).
James 1866: James, John; Continuation and Additions to the History of Bradford , London, 1866.
Keighley MoH: Borough of Keighley Annual Reports of the Medical Officer of Health , 1913–14 and 1921–29.
KN 1866: Complaint Of The Stanbury Maidens , Keighley News , 5 May 1866
Lewis 1848: Lewis, Samuel; A Topographical Dictionary of England , 7th edn., London, 1848.
Rush Isles: The Rush Isles Commonplace Book, MS, WYAS, Bradford 23D97.
Schroeder 1851: Schroeder, Henry; The Annals of Yorkshire , Leeds, 1851.
Stobbs 1962: S[tobbs], J.; Former Packhorse Inn , Keighley News , 15 Sept. 1962.
Thompson 2002: Thompson, Dennis; Stanbury A Pennine Country Village, Calgary, 2002.
Waters 1997: Waters, C.N.; Geology of the Crow Hill, Wadsworth and Oxenhope Areas , British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/97/7, Keyworth, 1997.
Wood 2014: Wood, Steven; Haworth, Oxenhope and Stanbury from Old Maps , Stroud, 2014.
Maps
BGS1997: British Geological Survey, 1:10 000 series, Sheet SD93NE (Crow Hill), 1997.
OS 1852: Ordnance Survey, 6 in. to 1 mile, first edition, Yorkshire Sheet 200, 1852.
OS 1894: Ordnance Survey, 25 in. to 1 mile, first edition, Yorkshire Sheet 200.13, 1894.
Documents
See list under General References above.
Chapter 12. Timothy Feather
| CHD | Chas H. Day – Keighley Herald 20/9/1907 |
| ES | Elizabeth Snowden – “Owd Tim Feather as seen by the little girl who lived at nearby farm.” Keighley News , 3/12/1960 |
| ID | Ian Dewhirst – Yorkshire Life , July 1959 |
| JB 1910 | Jonas Bradley – “Owd Timmy”, Hebden Bridge District News , 16/12/1910 |
| JS | James Smith – Labour Leader 19/6/1908 |
| KH 1911a | Anon – “Owd Timmy’s” Handloom; A New Attraction at Keighley Museum, Keighley Herald 13/1/1911 |
| KH 1911b | Anon – A Record Crowd at the Museum, Keighley Herald 20/1/1911 |
| KN 1910a | Keighley News , Obituary 3/12/1910 |
| KN 1910b | Keighley News , Funeral 10/12/1910 |
| KN 1910c | Anon – The Old Weaver’s Rent, Keighley News 17/12/1910 |
| KN 1910d | Anon – Timmy’s Loom for the Keighley Museum, Keighley News 17/12/1910 |
| KN 1960 | Anon – “Timmy Feather is still famous fifty years after his death at Stanbury”, Keighley News 26/11/1960 |
| KS | Keighley Snowden, – “The Last Hand-Weaver”, Yorkshire Weekly Post 23/3/1907 |
| MH | Martha Heaton, – “Recollections and History of Oxenhope”, 2006 |
| (MH’s visit was in 1906) | |
| RC | Rowland Cragg – “At Home with a Hand-Loom Weaver”, |
| The Dalesman , Jan 1957 | |
| STS | Whiteley Turner – A Spring-Time Saunter , 1913 (WT’s visit was in 1905) |
| YDO 1909 | Anon – Yorkshire Daily Observer 11/1/1909 |
Documents
See list under General References above.
The census returns and parish registers were the most important sources for this chapter.