High Lee today

Below are some recent photos of High Lee and the surrounding area. Part of the property is now a Care Home and part private residences.

High Lee taken from Sowerby Lane

Looking from Hathershelf across to High Lee Green. In the distance on the left is the Warley hillside across the Calder valley

From above Luddendenfoot on the Warley hillside 

looking west across the Calder valley

From behind the cricket field of Luddendenfoot C.C.

The buildings at High Lee

The Myers map of Halifax

This month the posts will concentrate on the area where the Yorkshire Hileys originated.

George Redmonds, the expert on Yorkshire surnames, said that the Hiley name came from High Lee in Luddenden. Go back to the post of 10th February 2019 for more about the origin of the name.

J.F. Myers produced a map of the Parish of Halifax in 1834-1835. An extract from it is shown below.

High Lee is situated on the Sowerby hillside to the west of Luddenden Foot across the Calder valley. Strangely it seems to be marked as 'Higher Lee', a name not seen anywhere else.

The map is held by the Halifax Antiquarian Society and the digital image belongs to the Digital Archives Association (www.digitalarchives.co.uk). Permission to show this extract has been given by both of these organisations.

You will need to click on the map to enlarge it.

Myers map of Halifax