Wyke (1861)

1861 Census – Cleckheaton District (including Hunsworth, Oakenshaw, Scholes and Wyke). Descriptions and addresses associated within Enumeration Districts for this area:

The 1861 census for the Cleckheaton district contains 14 enumeration districts. ED1 to 3 are for the Township of Wyke. ED4 to 10 and ED13 & 14 relate to the Township of Cleckheaton and ED11 & 12 for the Township of Hunsworth.

Districts for the Township of Wyke may be transcribed at a later time. Below is a description of the Enumeration Districts for this Township:

Enumeration District No: 1
Ref: RG9/3305
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Bradford
Registrar’s District: Cleckheaton
Name of Enumerator: William Taylor

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the Township of Wyke, comprising Wyke Bottoms, Woodroyd, Wyke Lane both sides, Mindle End, across the fields to Worthing Head, Bowling Green, both back and front, and the left side of Wyke to the footpath and then back to Wyke Common, Knowl Lane, Knowl, Upper and Lower Cow Close, Wyke Cottage, Wyke Hall, Willow Cottage and West House.

Enumeration District No: 2
Ref: RG9/3305
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Bradford
Registrar’s District: Cleckheaton
Name of Enumerator: Charles Brooke

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the Township of Wike comprising Storr Hill bottom, Storr Hill both sides, New Road Side right and left back and front, Course Gate, Old Storr Hill, Edge Nook, High Fearnley, Storr Hill Top with the four farm houses and the cottage houses at Blam Row and the Tollgate House on the Bradford and Huddersfield Road and the Temperance Hall.

Enumeration District No: 3
Ref: RG9/3305
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Bradford
Registrar’s District: Cleckheaton
Name of Enumerator: Robert Sellers

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the Township of Wyke comprising the Red Lion Inn, Culbert, Bailiffe Bridge right and left to the Punch Bowl Inn, Tollgate House up Lower Wike and right and left to Wike including Manor House, Lower Wyke, Lower and Upper Griff, Long Lover, Bessy Green, Albion Place, Tofts Green, Lang, Flush, Wyke both sides to the footpath and then the left hand side to the top, the Halfway House Inn and the houses on the New Road Side.