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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stanningley like this:
STANNINGLEY, a chapelry, with a village, in Leeds and Calverley parishes, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Halifax railway, 5 miles W of Leeds. It has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post-office‡ under Leeds. Pop., 2,600. There are woollen factories, machine-works, an iron-foundry, and quarries. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. The church was built in 1841, and is in the Norman style. A second church was built in 1856, and is in the early English style. There are five dissenting places of worship and a national school.
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How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stanningley, in Leeds and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25509
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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