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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described New Wortley like this:
WORTLEY (New), a chapelry in Wortley township, Leeds parish, W. R. Yorkshire; suburban to Leeds, and adjoining Holbeck. Post town, Leeds. Pop., 7,334. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. See preceding article.
New Wortley is now part of LEEDS District. Click here for graphs and data of how LEEDS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about New Wortley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of New Wortley, in Leeds and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24868
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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