Introduction
Welcome to the Methley Village web site - Having reached this point, I reckon that you must be interested in the village, its features, its past  and its characters.
Methley is an agricultural and former mining village in West Yorkshire about 10 miles south of Leeds, and lies in the inner sector of the confluence of the rivers Aire and Calder.
That’s for those of  you  that don’t know the place.   For those of you that know it and are trying to keep awake please look on this page for updates.   Expatriates from Scarborough to South Africa and Castleford to Canada  enjoy looking up the old place, along with new and potential residents who also enjoy the site.
Bill Thackray - Editor

History

Geography

Industry

In our History section fascinating articles about the Lords of the Manor  and   Enclosure Act 1773

In our waterways section a photo record of the new canal construction on the River Aire.

Here we illustrate industrial and agricultural activity in Methley including aspects of Savile Pit

Features

Social

Feedback

It will also include profiles of Methley characters both past and present and a link to the Minett Photo Collection

This section will include  social amenities in the Methley area including walks and footpaths along with a developing Gallery 

Your contributions to our web magazine are welcomed. See also our Visitors Book and Family History Section

New Item                                     
Refreshers                             Canals and Locks
Additional Items                     Club Trip to Brid    Visitors to the Site     Rivers     Footpaths

Hon. Editor - Bill Thackray, formerly of Methley, went to Castleford Grammar School from Mickletown School and achieved, along with modest O level passes a Grade 1 in handball fives.  An extensive career in administration with British Coal included 12 years at Savile Colliery.  Family and leisure pursuits helped maintain a continuous association with this village.   The seed to commence the web site was germinated following a request by Alma Townend in the Livewire Magazine for contributions.  Collaboration with Mr. Allan Raphael, a later work colleague at Nat West was absolutely vital to create these squares, words, pictures and movements that you see.  The layout was conceived in the early months of 2000 and the site went out on the 1st of July that year.     

In the developing years of the web site I have avoided reference to numbers of visitors and ‘hits’ to the site, relying on responses and requests for information through the feedback page to interpret the popularity of the site.
However a review of recent web statistics since January 1st 2008 show that methley-village.com has attracted on average 73 visitors per day.  (should the visitor connect more than once in a day it is only counted once, and then providing more than one page is accessed ). 

A total of 26,760 visits have been made during the whole of 2008, during which time 139,000 pages were viewed. 

The site was re-sized in January 2009 incorporating bigger photo reproductions and some amendments to text and was published on the 1st February

Not surprisingly many of these visits link in through the main search engines which serves to indicate new viewers continue to find the site.     The statistics also reveal that along with expected visitors from commonwealth favourites, there were surprisingly numerous viewers from other countries including  Brazil, Sweden, Korea, Finland, Holland, Germany, Turkey, Romania, Uruguay, Japan, Russia, China, Poland, Austria, Czech Republic, Belgium, Switzerland, Norway, France, Spain, India, Malaysia, Algeria, Israel, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, Iceland, Portugal, Hungary, USA, Taiwan, Colombia, Bermuda, United Arab Emirates, Ireland, Ukraine, Greece, Singapore and now Cyprus.       I don’t know if any of these are Anglos/Brits living abroad but they are most certainly welcome.   I have in the past invited contributions from surfers near and FAR which I now repeat.                                                 Search it,  navigate using the back arrow now.