Search results
Idle is a residential suburban area in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, in England and was a separate village, and before that it was the Manor of Idle. Idle is loosely bordered by the areas of Eccleshill, Wrose, Thackley, Apperley Bridge, and Greengates, in the north-east of the city.
Idle West Riding. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Idle like this: IDLE, a village, a township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict, in Bradford district, W. R. Yorkshire.
IDLE is a township and extensive clothing village and ecclesiastical parish formed out of the parish of Calverley in 1878, polling-place for the Northern division of the Riding, union of North Bierley, wapentake of Morley, Bradford petty sessional division, county court district and rural deanery, archdeaconry of Craven, diocese of Ripon ...
Idle is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1717 from a chapelry in Calverley Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Wrose, Windhill, Thorpe Green, Thorpe, Thackley, Parkhill, Green, Cross Keys, and Buckmill. Riding: West Riding. Parish church: Parish registers begin:
Idle, West Riding of Yorkshire genealogy site with description, census transcripts, parish records, and many other resources.
Idle is a residential suburban area in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, in England and was a separate village, and before that it was the Manor of Idle. Map. Directions. Satellite.
Idle is a residential suburban area in the townscape growing from Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was historically a separate village. The name ‘Idle’ is thought to be from the Old English Idan hlæw meaning ‘Ide's Hill’, after an ancient settler here in Anglo-Saxon days.
