Bramhope, Wharfedale, W Yorkshire - Puritan Chapel - local postcard c.1980s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  The Puritan Chapel, Bramhope, Wharfedale, West Yorkshire
• Publisher:  Photo by E. A. Winpenney, Otley / printed by Colin Richardson Printers, Brighouse
• Postally used:  no - has date written on back '1985'
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Bramhope is an affluent village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England, north of Holt Park and north east of Cookridge.

The village is 9 miles (14.4 km) north of Leeds city centre. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 3,400^[1] and it is in the LS16 Leeds postcode area. It is predominantly made up of large, privately owned houses which tend to be above the average value for properties in West Yorkshire.

Bramhope is in the Leeds North West constituency; its Member of Parliament is Liberal Democrat Greg Mulholland, who won the seat from Labour in the 2005 general election.

The earliest known settlement in the area was a British camp established off Moor Road. The Romans built a road through the area from Adel to Ilkley, traces of which remain in a field near Leeds Bradford Airport.^[2]

The place-name Bramhope appears first in the Domesday Book as Bra(m)hop, with later medieval spellings including Bramhop(a) and Bramhop(p)e. The name seems to derive from Old English brom 'broom' + hop 'a small valley, side-valley off a larger valley', here referring to a small valley off Wharfedale.^[3] In 1086, Bramhope was the manor of an Anglo-Saxon thegn, Uchill. In 1095 the manor passed to Percy family, and in 1165 was sold to Ralph de Bramhope. In the 13th century the monasteries owned much of the land and had granges where sheep were grazed. The monks used tracks, such as Scotland Lane and Staircase Lane, as they travelled from their outlying granges to Kirkstall Abbey.^[2]

The village had a small population until the 20th century. The Black Death of 1348-9 reduced the number of adults to 34, but this gradually increased to about 400 in 1900. Now it is in the region of 4,500.^[2] Water was drawn from private wells or the town well at the foot of Northgate (now Church Hill). The town well was restored in 1991 by the Bramhope History Group, and is located opposite St Giles Church.^[2] The plaque says that the well was exposed in 1991, so perhaps it had been lost for some time.^[4]

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries Henry VIII gave the land to the Earl of Cumberland. In the 16th century the Dyneley family moved into the area and acquired Bramhope Hall. In 1649 they built the Puritan Chapel, which was taken over by the Church of England after the Restoration.^[2] The chapel is one of only a few built during the Commonwealth period. It is said not to have been consecrated but nevertheless was regularly used for church services until 1881-82. The Puritan Chapel was listed grade I in 1966.

When the chapel proved too small for the growing population, St Giles' Church was built in 1881.^[5] The original Methodist chapel was built in 1837 and replaced by the much bigger church in 1896.^[2][6] There is a map showing the location of St Giles and the Methodist church here. Bramhope Cemetery, established in 1861, is in Moor Road,^[7] but there are still some historical gravestones remaining in the cemetery of the Puritan Chapel.

For many centuries travellers to the market towns in the vicinity used Otley Old Road. However, it was the Leeds to Otley turnpike road, with its tollhouses, opened in 1842, which routed travellers through the outskirts of Bramhope. It is along this route that motorists today travel between Leeds and the northwest. The milestones along the road were erected in 1850.^[2]

The railway was excavated under the village through the Bramhope Tunnel^[8] constructed between 1845 and 1849. The tunnel has an elaborate castellated northern entrance and there are many heaps of spoil and several ventilation shafts along its length. There is a replica of the tunnel entrance in Otley churchyard, erected as a memorial to those who lost their lives during the tunnel's construction.^[2] There is no Bramhope railway station. Bus services are listed here.

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period=1945 - present

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