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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.
Council: Bradford. 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.
Idle and Thackley is a ward within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council in the county of West Yorkshire, England, named after the villages of Idle and Thackley around which it is drawn. The population of 14,541 according to the 2001 UK census had increased at the 2011 Census to 16,135.
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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 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. Overview Map
Aug 23, 2016 · The Township of Idle. August 23, 2016March 20, 2018 Bradford Libraries 1 Comment. This article is an extract from The Illustrated History of Bradford’s Suburbs 2002. THE township of Idle, to the north of Bradford, has always been quite large in both area and population.
Tithe maps are one of the earliest large scale maps of an area and show the boundaries of plots of land, individual fields, woods, roads, streams and rivers, and the position of buildings. The tithe map can be viewed on the left, whilst the modern map on the right is centred on roughly the same area. To zoom in, click on the tithe map, and ...
