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Farnley village (also known as New Farnley) is a district in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, south-west of Leeds city centre, between Wortley, Bramley and surrounding countryside, in the LS12 Leeds postcode area. The village was mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as ''Fernelei''. New Farnley is a nearby commuter village. == Farnley == Farnley started as a small agricultural village, dating back to Medieval times when it was known as Fernelei and was the Kings’s Land (Ilbert de Lacy). The original Farnley village started around Cross Lane which serviced Farnley Hall (on Hall Lane) and the Farnley Manor House (at the junction of Hall Lane to Chapel Lane). The Manor and Estates of Farnley were held in 1086 by Swain Fitz Alric and then a number of his descendants until it passed by marriage to Sir James Danby in 1497. The Danbys held it for about 300 years before it was bought by James Armitage. Farnley was surrounded by the villages of Bawn, Upper Moor Side and Low Moor Side. Farnley was heavily wooded until the 19th century, and Farnley Wood was the meeting point for a would-be rebellion against Charles II in 1663 which was known as the Farnley Wood Plot (believed to have taken place in Sykes wood, at the bottom of Green Lane). Although the rebellion failed from lack of support, 21 participants were hanged, drawn and quartered after being betrayed. The people of Farnley would have worked in the many mills surrounding the area including the Butterbowl Mill and the three mills situated in Post Hill (including Union Bridge Mill and the Woolen Mills of Farnley and Upper Mill). New Farnley did not exist as a village until the early part of the 19th century when Edward Armitage started the Farnley Iron Works and Farnley Fireclay. He needed many workers so built houses for them, so what had been known as part of Farnley now became New Farnley. With the increase of the urban sprawl of the industrial revolution of the 19th century, Low Moor Side emerged into New Farnley and the Bawn into Farnley. The close proximity of these two settlements means the area has been referred to as New Farnley for some time with Old Farnley referring to the area around Hall Lane and Cross Lane (being the original Farnley Village). At the lower area of Old Farnley sits St Wilfrid's Church. St Michael's church is in Farnley park near the stately home of Farnley Hall.〔There is another Farnley Hall in North Yorkshire.〕 The original Farnley Village now contains a hair salon, a newsagent, a mini-mart. Farnley has several area schools, Cobden Primary School, Lawns Park Primary School and The Farnley Academy. Farnley has a lower set of shops (originally the Bawns village) consisting of a pizza takeaway, a newsagent, a mini-mart, a butcher and Cow Close Community Corner. Old Farnley is the western terminus for First Leeds Bus Routes 5 and 42. It is likely that past bus operators in Leeds coined the name Old Farnley to avoid confusion with Farsley, another nearby area of Leeds. In 1904, Farnley Civil Parish was abolished to create the Armley and Bramley Civil Parish. The civil parish had included slightly more than the area between the ring road, Wood Lane, Back Lane, Tong Road and Park Spring; in particular it included New Farnley. The population of the civil parish was 4,351 in 1901 and 4,208 in 1911.〔(Farnley Ch/CP Yorkshire through time | Administrative history of Parish-level Unit: hierarchies, boundaries )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Farnley, Leeds」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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