Angles, Danes and Norse in the District of Huddersfield (1929) by W. G. Collingwood

Angles, Danes and Norse in the District of Huddersfield was the second in the series of Tolson Museum handbooks and was originally published in 1921, with a second edition printed in 1929. It was written by Liverpool academic W. G. Collingwood and edited by T. W. Woodhead.

Contents (2nd edition)

  • Preface (page 3)
  • Chapter 1 : The Anglian Occupation of Yorkshire (page 7)
  • Chapter 2 : British Loidis and Elmet (page 9)
  • Chapter 3 : The Anglian and British Map of the Huddersfield District (page 13)
  • Chapter 4 : The Anglian Abbeys (page 17)
  • Chapter 5 : Anglian Monuments (page 19)
  • Chapter 6 : Dewsbury (page 24)
  • Chapter 7 : Thornhill (page 33)
  • Chapter 8 : Walton and Rastrick Cross-bases (page 37)
  • Chapter 9 : Kirkburton and Kirkheaton — the Danish Settlers (page 40)
  • Chapter 10 : High Hoyland and the Norse Settlers (page 46)
  • Chapter 11 : Domesday Book an the Norman Conquest (page 50)
  • Chapter 12 : Mirfield, Cawthrone, Penistone and Skelmanthorpe (page 55)
  • Summary (page 60)
  • Bibliography (page 61)

Copyright Status

Under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the copyright of literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works in the United Kingdom expires at the end of the period of 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the author dies.

  • the author, William Gershom Collingwood, died in 1932 and copyright on his works expired at the end of 2002
  • the editor, Thomas William Woodhead, died in 1940 and copyright on his works expired at the end of 2010