Whitley, North Yorkshire

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| static_image_name = Whitley, Chapel of All Saints.jpg

| static_image_width = 250

| static_image_caption = All Saints Whitley

| coordinates = {{coord|53.68429|-1.15163|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Whitley

| population = 1,021

| population_ref = (2011 census){{NOMIS2011|id=E04007781|title=Whitley Parish|accessdate=4 November 2019}}

| unitary_england = North Yorkshire

| lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| constituency_westminster =

| post_town = GOOLE

| postcode_district = DN14

| postcode_area = DN

| dial_code = 01977

| os_grid_reference = SE561212

}}

Whitley is a village in North Yorkshire, England, close to the Aire and Calder Navigation and the M62 motorway. The population of the village at the 2001 census was recorded as being 574,{{NOMIS2001|id=36UH085|title=Whitley Parish|accessdate=4 November 2019}} which had risen to 1,021 by the time of the 2011 census. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to have risen again to 1,110.{{cite web |title=2015 Population Estimates Parishes |url=https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fileroot/About%20the%20council/North%20Yorkshire%20statistics/Parish_mid-year_population_estimates_2015.pdf |website=northyorks.gov.uk |accessdate=4 November 2019 |page=18 |date=December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604015709/https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fileroot/About%20the%20council/North%20Yorkshire%20statistics/Parish_mid-year_population_estimates_2015.pdf|archive-date=4 June 2022|url-status=dead}} It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.{{Cite web|title=History of Whitley, in Selby and West Riding {{!}} Map and description|url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/14460|access-date=2020-11-25|website=www.visionofbritain.org.uk}} From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Selby, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

History

The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Witelai,{{cite web |title=Whitley {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SE5621/whitley/ |website=opendomesday.org |accessdate=4 November 2019}} with the name deriving from the Old English words of hwīt and lēah, meaning White wood clearing.{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1960 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-869103-3 |page=514 |edition=4}} The village is located on the A19 road, south of its intersection with the M62 Motorway at Junction 34,{{cite web |title=Ferrybridge to Pollington (J33 to East of J34) |url=http://www.ukmotorwayarchive.org.uk/en/motorways/motorway-listing/m62/m62-the-lancashire--yorkshire-motorway/ferrybridge-to-pollington-j33-to-east-of-j34.cfm |website=www.ukmotorwayarchive.org.uk |accessdate=4 November 2019}} {{convert|6|mi}} west of Snaith and {{convert|7|mi}} north east of Pontefract.{{cite web |title=History of Whitley, in Selby and West Riding {{!}} Map and description |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/14460 |website=www.visionofbritain.org.uk |accessdate=4 November 2019}}{{cite web |title=Genuki: KELLINGTON: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1868., Yorkshire (West Riding) |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Kellington/Kellington68 |website=www.genuki.org.uk |accessdate=4 November 2019}} The village is served by {{rws|Whitley Bridge}} railway station to the north, but only has one train a day eastwards and only two westwards.{{cite web |title=Whitley Bridge Station Train Tickets, Departures and Timetables {{!}} Northern - Northern |url=https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/stations/WBD#station-timetables |website=www.northernrailway.co.uk |accessdate=4 November 2019}}{{cite web |title=Leeds and Wakefield to Knottingley and Goole |url=https://d2cf7kiw5xizhy.cloudfront.net/images/timetables/bucket/leeds-and-wakefield-to-knottingley-and-goole-pontefract-line-2276.pdf |website=d2cf7kiw5xizhy.cloudfront.net |accessdate=4 November 2019 }}

The village has a primary school and a church, the Chapel of All Saints, which was built between 1858 and 1861.{{cite web |title=Whitley and Eggborough Community Primary School URN: 121423 |url=https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/121423 |website=reports.ofsted.gov.uk |accessdate=4 November 2019 |date=16 October 2019}}{{cite web |title=Kellington with Whitley |url=http://www.kellingtonwithwhitley.org.uk/HistoryWhitley.php |website=www.kellingtonwithwhitley.org.uk |accessdate=4 November 2019}} A Knights Templar manor is believed to have existed south west of the village between 1248 and 1312. Unlike other Templar possessions which were taken over, when the order was dissolved, Whitley Preceptory was left to ruin.{{NHLE|desc=Whitley Thorpe moated Templar grange site, 600m north west of Fulham House|num=1017458|grade=|accessdate=4 November 2019}}

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south west to Kirk Smeaton with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 4,391.{{NOMIS2011|id=E05006361|title=Whitley Ward (as of 2011)|accessdate=4 November 2019}}

References

External links

[http://www.whitleycommunity.co.uk/Core/Whitley-Village/Pages/Default.aspx Community website]

Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire

Category:Villages in North Yorkshire