Sowerby

General Notes

Sowerby – or Sowerby Town – is a hilltop village above and to the west of Sowerby Bridge.

The village appears in Domesday Book as Sorebi, and in the 13th and 14th centuries as Sourbi, Sourby, and Soureby. The name means a village on sour land – sour meaning muddy or swampy.

Until the coming of the turnpikes and the canals, Sowerby was more important than Sowerby Bridge which lay below in the swampy valley bottom.

Sowerby was owned by the Earls of Warenne – who are said to have had a hunting lodge there – and was an important part of the manor of Wakefield.

Sowerby New Road was completed in 1929 as a means of providing employment during the economic depression, and a Government grant was made available to Sowerby Bridge Urban District Council on condition that a proportion of the workforce came from an economically distressed area. Road workers were brought from Barnsley and many of them settled in Sowerby after the work was done.

In 1926, the amalgamation of Sowerby and Sowerby Bridge resulted in the formation of Sowerby Urban District Council, and in 1937 the Sowerby Bridge Urban District Council.

See Graptolite's Notes on the Church at Sowerby

Some sites, sights and other entries for Sowerby

Ball Green, Sowerby Barton Farm, Sowerby Bell Hotel, Sowerby Bent Farm, Sowerby Bentley Hollins, Sowerby Bentley Royd, Sowerby Birch Farm, Sowerby Blue Bell, Sowerby Bowood, Sowerby Brantom Farm, Sowerby The Breck, Triangle Britain Farm, Sowerby Briton, Sowerby Buck Stones Well, Sowerby Bull's Head, Sowerby Carr, Sowerby Castle Hill Farm, Sowerby Castle Hill, Sowerby Church Stile, Sowerby Collon Bob Farm, Sowerby Cross Stone Farm, Sowerby Crowell Shaws, Sowerby Davy Lea Farm, Sowerby Dean House, Sowerby Dean Lane Fountain, Sowerby Deerstones Farm, Sowerby Ducking stool, Sowerby Bridge Field House, Sowerby Flints Reservoir, Sowerby Flone Nook, Sowerby Forge House, Sowerby Free Gift Institution Friendly Society Gaukroger Farm, Sowerby Golden Fleece, Sowerby Goodgreave, Sowerby Great Greave, Soyland Levi Haigh Haigh's Farm, Sowerby Hanging Lee, Sowerby Hattering Stone, Sowerby Haugh End House, Sowerby Hell Croft, Sowerby Hollinghey, Sowerby Hollow End, Sowerby Hullen Edge Farm, Sowerby Ing Head, Sowerby Jack Hey, Sowerby King's Arms, Sowerby King's Head, Sowerby Joshua Lea Little Buck Stones, Sowerby Little London House, Sowerby Little Toothill Farm, Sowerby Long Royd, Sowerby Lower Bentley Royd, Sowerby Lower Snape Farm, Sowerby Lumb Beck, Sowerby Lumb Fold Farm, Sowerby Lumb House, Sowerby The Lumme, Sowerby Mill House, Sowerby Millbank Hall, Sowerby Milner Lodge, Sowerby Milner Place, Sowerby Moorcock, Sowerby MPs for Sowerby

Nether Field House, Sowerby Old Dene, Sowerby Old Eli Clough, Sowerby Old Hall, Sowerby Old Haugh End, Sowerby Old House, Sowerby Parkin Hall, Sowerby Pinfold, Sowerby The Platts, Sowerby Naylor Pollard Pond, Sowerby Providence Sick & Funeral Society, Sowerby Quarry Hill, Sowerby Queen, Sowerby Quickstavers, Sowerby Rawson Wood Rosemary Hall, Sowerby Royal Oak Farm, Sowerby Royal Oak, Sowerby The Royd, Sowerby Rushcart, Sowerby Saint Peter's Community Centre, Sowerby Shaw's Clough, Sowerby Shepherds' Rest, Sowerby Shield Hall, Sowerby Shoulder of Mutton, Sowerby Skircoat, Sowerby & Soyland, Prosecution Society Sod, Sowerby Sowerby Bridge Nurses Home Sowerby War Memorial Spring Hill, Sowerby Stanhope Farm, Sowerby Stannery End, Sowerby Stansfield Mill, Sowerby Stansfield Pond, Sowerby Star, Sowerby Stavery, Sowerby Style, Sowerby Thorp Farm, Sowerby Thorp House, Sowerby Thorpe Place, Sowerby Thymeley Bent, Sowerby Toothill End Farm, Sowerby Town Farm, Sowerby Towngate Hall, Sowerby Travellers' Rest, Sowerby Travellers' Rest, Sowerby Triangle, Sowerby Trinity Cottage, Sowerby Upper Bentley Royd, Sowerby Upper Gaukroger, Sowerby Upper Old House, Sowerby Upper Quickstavers, Sowerby Upper Snape Farm, Sowerby Vicarage Farm, Sowerby Westfield White Windows, Sowerby Withens Moor, Sowerby Withins, Sowerby Wood Lane Hall, Sowerby Woodland Hall, Sowerby The Hopkinson family of Sowerby The Horton family of Sowerby The Moore family of Northowram & Sowerby The Wood family of Wood Lane Hall

Beerhouses & Pubs in Sowerby

Several beerhouses and public houses have been recorded in and around Sowerby, including

• Bell Hotel, Sowerby
• Blue Bell, Sowerby
• Bull's Head, Sowerby
• Church Stile, Sowerby
• Golden Fleece, Sowerby
• King's Arms, Sowerby
• King's Head, Sowerby
• Moorcock, Sowerby
• Queen, Sowerby
• Royal Oak, Sowerby
• Rushcart, Sowerby
• Shepherds' Rest, Sowerby
• Shoulder of Mutton, Southowram
• Shoulder of Mutton, Sowerby
• Star, Sowerby
• Travellers' Rest, Sowerby
• Travellers' Rest, Sowerby
• Trees, Sowerby
• Triangle, Sowerby