Entries for the tag ‘Lightcliffe’
📌 Village in Calderdale district in West Yorkshire/West Riding, three miles east of Halifax and two miles north west of Brighouse. 
- 27 August 1673: John Holden fatally mugs his wife at Lightcliffe (Calderdale), but witnesses are fearful, and the jury sees only manslaughter
- 11 March 1730: News that John Barber, heir to Gawbert Hall (Lightcliffe), has married a servant
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