Whitley (GB)

Whitley Bridge Station Office cancel of 1915

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Whitley is a village in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the Aire and Calder Navigation and the M62 motorway. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.

The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Witelai, with the name deriving from the Old English words of hwīt and lēah, meaning White wood clearing. The village is located on the A19 road, south of its intersection with the M62 Motorway at Junction 34, 6 miles west of Snaith and 7 miles north east of Pontefract. The village is served by Whitley Bridge railway station to the north, but only has one train a day eastwards and only two westwards.

The village has a primary school and a church, the Chapel of All Saints, which was built between 1858 and 1861. A Knights Templar manor is believed to have existed south west of the village between 1248 and 1312. Unlike other Templar possessions which were taken over, when the order was dissolved, Whitley Preceptory was left to ruin.

Whitely Bridge Station office handled mail in and outbound for Whitley and Eggborough.

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Whitley Bridge Station Office

Whitley Bridge Station Office cancellation 1915

Whitley Bridge railway station serves the villages of Eggborough and Whitley in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 20 miles (32 km) east of Leeds. It was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1848, on their line between Wakefield Kirkgate and Goole via Knottingley. The station is unmanned and has only basic amenities – no permanent buildings remain other than standard glass and metal shelters on each platform. A Station Post Office was opened to accomodate mail into and out of Whitley, Eggborough and smaller villages in the later part of the 1800's