Sitlington

Sitlington
Area
 • 18913,412 acres (13.81 km2)[1]
Population
 • 1881[2]2993
 • 1961[2]3482
History
 • CreatedMiddle Ages
StatusHistoric township
 • UnitsMiddlestown, Netherton, Overton, Midgley
Sitlington - National Mining Museum at Caphouse Colliery

Sitlington, historically Shitlington, was a township in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Thornhill in the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire comprising the villages and hamlets of Middlestown, Netherton, Overton and Midgley.[3][4][5] The h was dropped from Shitlington and Sitlington was adopted in 1929 with the approval of the county council.[6] The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 5,963.[7]

  1. ^ "Sitlington Tn/CP". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Population Sitlington Tn/CP". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  3. ^ Lewis, Samuel (1848), "Shitlington", A Topographical Dictionary of England, British History Online, pp. 85–87, retrieved 1 January 2015
  4. ^ "Sitlington West Riding". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  5. ^ "Boundary Map of Sitlington Tn/CP". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  6. ^ Woodall 1977, p. foreword
  7. ^ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 March 2016.