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| OS grid reference | SE054200 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HALIFAX |
| Postcode district | HX4 |
| Dialling code | 01422 |
| Police | West Yorkshire |
| Fire | West Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
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Barkisland (/ˈbɑːkɪslənd/) is a village in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Ripponden, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Sowerby Bridge and 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Halifax town centre.
The village is in the Ryburn ward of Calderdale. Barkisland has a school, a church, a post office and a cricket club that plays in the Huddersfield Cricket League.[1] There are two pubs in Barkisland, The Fleece Countryside Inn and The Griffin Inn.
A ten-thousand-year-old axe was discovered near Ringstone Reservoir, providing evidence of human activity in the area now known as Barkisland dating back to the Stone Age.[2] The origin of the name is in dispute. In a book of place names printed in 1944 it was stated that Barkisland derived from it being a settlement ('land') of a chieftain called 'Barkis'. While much earlier, in 1789, the Rev. John Watson, vicar of Ripponden church between 1754 and 1769, theorised that "Barsey or Barkesey are Anglo-Saxon words meaning low-lying enclosures where birches grow. It also is the Anglo-Saxon for a district where there are wolves."[3]
Bowers Mill was built in the 18th century as a water-powered fulling mill.[4] It has also been used as a corn mill, a worsted mill and a woollen mill. Textiles manufacturer J. & S. Taylor Ltd occupied the mill from 1882 to 1991 before moving production to Sowerby Bridge.[5] The mill has now been converted for smaller businesses.[4]
Barkisland Mill, a six-storey building, was used for textile production in the 19th and 20th centuries. At the start of the 21st century it was converted into residential flats.[4] Bottomley's Mill, a cotton mill, was recorded when a fire broke out there on 13 January 1871.[4]
Barkisland is a village in the civil parishofRipponden, which is part of the Ryburn wardofCalderdale, a metropolitan borough within the ceremonial countyofWest Yorkshire in England.[6]
It was a township and chapelry in the parish of Halifax,[7] from 1866 Barkisland was a civil parish.[8] Barkisland was part of the Halifax Registration District from 1 July 1837. In 1931 the parish population was 1552.[9] It was abolished as a parish on 1 April 1937 and merged with the neighbouring parish of Ripponden.[10]
Barkisland is situated on a hilltop that gently rises from Greetland in the north-east and declines westwards to Ripponden and eastwards to Stainland. The hill continues to climb southwards towards Scammonden.
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The village stocks are located on Stainland Road roughly 550 yards east of the post office and are a Grade II listed structure.[11]
Part of the Anglican Diocese of Wakefield, Christ Church is Barkisland's only church has links to the nearby school.[12]
Barkisland Hall is a grade I listed country house built for John Gledhill in 1638, constructed in stone in three storeys to an F-shaped floor plan. It was bought in 1967 by Lord Kagan to provide accommodation for his textile company, that made Gannex raincoats.[13]
Barkisland Junior and Infant school serves the village.[14] Barkisland School Association (BSA) is a parent-teacher organisation supporting the school by organising events and fundraising.[15]
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