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Publications
Publications which contain useful information on the history of Burley in Wharfedale

_The publications below are available on loan from both Burley and Ilkley libraries:
  • Burley Community Council, Village Design Statement, 1999
  • Burley Parish Council, The Burley Handbook 2008
  • Edmund Bogg, Two Thousand Miles in Wharfedale, John Heywood, London, 1904
  • F. W. M. Newbould, A Short History of the Parish Church of Saint Mary The Blessed Virgin, Burley-in-Wharfedale, 1993
  • T. Wemyss Reid, Life of the Rt. Hon. W.E. Forster, 2 Volumes, 4th Edition, Chapman and Hall, London, 1888. Reprinted in 1970 by Adams and Dart, Bath
  • H. Speight, Upper Wharfedale, Elliot Stock, 1900
  • John Ward, Discovering the Yorkshire Dales, Smith Settle, Otley, 1996
  • D. & M. Warwick, eds., Burley–in–Wharfedale in Times Past, Countryside Publications, 1985
  • M. Warwick, Greenholme Mills Remembered, Burley Local History Group, 1988
  • M. & D. Warwick, Eminent Victorians, The Forsters of Burley–in–Wharfedale, 1994.
  • M. & D. Warwick, Burley: A Millennium Book, Burley Local History Group, 1999
  • J. Howson, M. & D. Warwick, Burley–in–Wharfedale Then & Now, 2008

Books on Sale
​in Burley Library

M. & D. Warwick, Our Schools: A History of Schools in Burley–in–Wharfedale, Burley Local History Group, 1998​
​For Sale, price £2
Sale price £ 2

​M. & D. Warwick, Independent Burley: A Village, its People and its Councils, 2006
​For Sale, price £5
Sale price £ 5

​GREENHOLME MILLS REMEMBERED AGAIN, By Margaret and Dennis Warwick (in memory of Margaret who died in May 2010) 2010.
​ For Sale, price £5
Sale price £ 5

Video

A video, Burley-in-Wharfedale: Past, Present and Future, which was prepared for the Village Design Statement, showing time approximately 17 minutes, is also available from Burley library.