Southowram

Contents:

• General Notes

• Beerhouses & Pubs in Southowram

• Some sites, sights and other entries for Southowram

General Notes

The village of Southowram is a district of Calderdale immediately to the east of Halifax.

In old documents, the Southowram township included

• Ashday
• Backhall
• Bank Bottom
• Blaithroyd
• Caddy Field
• Exley
• Shibden Hall
• Shibden
• Siddal
• Stoney Royd

The township appears as

• Overe and Oure [Domesday Book] where it was described as wasteas est
• Sudhouerum [1275]
• Ourum, Southouerton, and South-Ourom [13th and 14th centuries]

The name uses the element owram and means on the south bank, slope or ridge – of the Red Beck – as distinct from Northowram

It was a part of the Honour of Pontefract.

In 1865, the district was included in the extended Halifax Borough.

On 25th December 1866, Southowram was lighted with gas for the first time.

Because of the village's resources – stone, clay and coal – there have been several plans and proposals to link Southowram with the rest of the world (and Halifax), including

• A Beacon Hill rack-and-pinion railway
• A railway from Siddal
• A railway to Elland [1901]
• The Southowram-Holmfield Light Railway [1901, 1905]
• The Halifax to Beacon Hill cable car proposal [2005]

but all came to naught

Some sites, sights and other entries for Southowram

Adgel Farm, Southowram Adgil Grove Farm, Southowram Anne's Court, Southowram Ash Grove School, Southowram Ash Grove, Southowram Ashday Cottage, Southowram Ashday Hall, Southowram Ashday Lane Methodist Sunday School, Southowram Ashgrove Mine, Southowram Ashley House, Southowram The Astey family of Southowram Bank Bottom Mine, Southowram Bank Top Cricket Field, Southowram Bank Top Farm, Southowram Bank Top Library, Southowram Bank Top Post Office, Southowram Bank Top School, Southowram Bank Top, Southowram The Banke, Southowram Bankfield Farm, Southowram Barker Royd Farm, Southowram Barker Royd Mill, Southowram Barker Royd Quarry, Southowram Barker Royd, Southowram Bath Mills, Southowram Beacon Mine, Southowram Bell House Farm, Southowram Bethesda Primitive Methodist Chapel, Southowram Bethesda Primitive Methodist School, Southowram Binns Bottom Mine, Southowram Binns Top, Southowram Birks Royd, Southowram Birks Top, Southowram Blaithroyd Farm, Southowram Blaithroyd Working Men's Club, Southowram Blaithroyd, Southowram Bolton House, Southowram Bolton Lodge, Southowram Brier Lodge, Southowram Brig Royd, Southowram Broadway, Southowram Brookfoot Hill Brooksbank, Southowram Broomfield House, Southowram Burwood, Southowram Calder Mine, Southowram Canker Dam Mill, Southowram Castlemaine House, Southowram Chancery Buildings, Southowram Change, Southowram Chapel House, Southowram Chapel le Briers, Southowram Childhood memories of Southowram village in the 1950s Cinder Hills Colliery, Southowram Clough Head Cottage, Southowram Coal Pit Farm, Southowram Colburn Farm, Southowram Colburn, Southowram Coldwell Hill Farm, Southowram Coldwell Hill, Southowram Cote Hill Farm, Southowram Cromwell House, Southowram Cromwellbottom Hall Cromwellbottom Cross Platts, Southowram Crossley's Buildings, Southowram Delf Hill Chapel, Southowram Far Mires, Southowram Field House Farm, Southowram Gate House, Southowram Glenwood, Southowram Grange House, Southowram Grove House Farm, Southowram Halfpenny Can, Southowram Halifax House, Southowram Hall Ing House, Southowram Hall Ings, Southowram Higgin House, Southowram Higgin Lane Sunday School, Southowram Highfield Coal Pit, Southowram Highfield Cottages, Southowram Highfield Farm, Southowram Highfield Mine, Southowram Highfield Observatory, Southowram Highfield Pit Farm, Southowram Highfield, Southowram Hill's Yard, Southowram Holdsworth's School, Southowram Hollins House, Southowram Holly Royd, Southowram Holmfield & Southowram Light Railway Horrowings, Southowram Ireland Farm, Southowram Ivy House Farm, Southowram Lacey's Chapel, Southowram Laverock Hall, Southowram Law Farm, Southowram Law Hill House, Southowram Law Hill School, Southowram Lightowler Buildings, Southowram Bank Little Ireland Farm, Southowram Little Marsh, Southowram Little Norcliffe Farm, Southowram Longbottom Buildings, Southowram Longlands, Southowram Lower Norcliffe, Southowram Lower Place Farm, Southowram Lud Hill Cottage, Southowram Marsh Farm, Southowram Marsh Fold, Southowram Marshalls PLC Near Mires, Southowram New Hall Mine, Southowram New Marsh Farm, Southowram New Road Inn, Southowram Newhouse, Southowram Norcliffe Farm, Southowram Norcliffe Farm, Southowram Oak End Farm, Southowram Old Close Farm, Southowram The Otes family of Southowram

The Outhwaite family of Southowram Park Farm, Southowram Park Gate East, Southowram Park Nook Mine, Southowram Pasture House Farm, Southowram Pasture House, Southowram Pit Farm, Southowram Pit Hill Farm, Southowram Pit House Farm, Southowram Pit House, Southowram Place House, Southowram Pot Ovens, Southowram Prospect House, Southowram Providence Buildings, Southowram Pudding Park Wood, Southowram Pump Farm, Southowram Robin Close, Southowram Robin Hood's Scar, Southowram The Royd, Southowram Roydlands, Southowram Royds Mount, Southowram Saint Ann's in the Grove, Southowram Saint Anne's Church, Southowram Saint Anne's in the Grove Church, Southowram Saint Anne's Cricket Club, Southowram Saint Anne's Southowram Quarterly Messenger & Record Saint Michael & All Angels' Church, Southowram Bank Siddal Pit Farm, Southowram Siddal Top Farm, Southowram Siddal Wells Mine, Southowram Slead Cottage, Southowram Slead Hill, Southowram Slead House, Southowram Smythe Bridge, Southowram Snydal Farm, Southowram Snydle Farm, Southowram Society of Druids, Southowram South Holme Farm, Southowram Southowram & Elland Light Railway Southowram Annual Subscription Concert Southowram Bank Board School Southowram Bank Mine Southowram Bank Mission Church Southowram Board of Guardians Southowram Brass Band Southowram Club & Institute Southowram Co-Op Southowram Coal Club Southowram Coal Company Limited Southowram Community Centre Southowram constables Southowram Cricket Club Southowram Economic Stores Southowram Floral & Horticultural Society Southowram Hall Southowram Home Guard Southowram Library Southowram Local Board Southowram Male Voice Glee Union Southowram Mechanics' Institute Southowram National School Southowram Nursery School Southowram Overseers of the Poor Southowram Police Station Southowram Post Office Southowram Prize Band Southowram Quarries Southowram School Board Southowram Social Club Southowram stocks Southowram Subscription Band Southowram Surveyor of the Highways Southowram Urban District Council Southowram Vicarage Southowram War Memorial Southowram War Memorial Trust Southowram Ward, Halifax Southowram Wesleyan Chapel Southowram Wesleyan Chapel: Graveyard Southowram Workhouse Manor of Southowram Spring Hall, Southowram Sunny Bank Clough, Southowram Sunny Bank Farm, Southowram Sunway, Southowram Thumpas Farm, Southowram The Tilly family of Southowram Toft House Farm, Southowram Twinge House, Southowram United Methodist Free Chapel, Southowram Bank United Methodist Free Church, Southowram United Methodist Free Sunday School, Southowram Bank Upper Delves, Southowram Upper Marsh Farm, Southowram Upper Marsh, Southowram Upper Norcliffe Farm, Southowram Upper Place Farm, Southowram Valley Top Chapel, Southowram Wakefield Bank, Southowram Walterclough Gardens, Southowram Walterclough Hall School, Southowram Walterclough Hall, Southowram Walterclough Mill, Southowram Walterclough Mine, Southowram Walterclough, Southowram Watson Cottage, Southowram Watson House, Southowram Wellington Club Ernest Hargreaves Westwood Whitegate Brick Works, Southowram Willey Hill Pit, Southowram Windy Wall Nook Mine, Southowram Withinfields Withinfields Junior & Infants' School, Southowram Woodcote, Southowram Yew Tree House, Southowram Yew Trees, Southowram The Aspinall family of Southowram The Farrar family of Southowram The Freeman family of Southowram The Gibson family of Southowram The Haigh family of Southowram

Beerhouses & Pubs in Southowram

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

• Blue Bell, Southowram
• Cat Heads, Southowram
• Chequer, Southowram
• Cock & Bottle, Southowram
• Delvers' Arms, Southowram
• Horse & Groom, Southowram
• Jubilee Hotel, Southowram
• Malt Shovel, Southowram
• Manor House, Southowram
• New Road Inn, Southowram
• Pack Horse, Southowram
• Rock, Southowram
• Rook Tavern, Southowram
• Shoulder of Mutton, Southowram
• Shoulder of Mutton, Southowram
• Single Sisters, Southowram
• Travellers' Rest, Southowram
• Who could a' thowt it, Southowram

See Hemingway, Northowram, Ouram and Southowram's Quarries, Delves & Mines

© Malcolm Bull 2017 / [email protected]
Revised 12:13 on 21st October 2017 / mms164 / 33