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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Briers like this:
BRIER'S, or St. Anne's-in-the-grove, a chapelry, with a village, in Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near the Manchester and Leeds railway, 3¼ miles ESE of Halifax. Post Town, Halifax. Rated property, £15,517. Pop., 6,570. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £160.* Patron, the Vicar of Halifax. The church is tolerable.
Briers is now part of CALDERDALE District. Click here for graphs and data of how CALDERDALE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Briers itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Briers, in Calderdale and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25415
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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