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West Bretton history
Toponymy
Bretton derives from the Old English Brettas, the Britons and tūn meaning an enclosure, farmstead, village or estate. The Briton’s farm or settlement was recorded as Bretone in the Domesday Book of 1086 and West Bretton in 1200.
Manor
West Bretton was laid waste in the Harrying of the North after the Norman conquest of England. The population suffered the effects of the Black Death in 1350. The de Bretton, Dronfield and Wentworth families became pre-eminent. Bretton Hall was built by Sir William Wentworth who inherited the estate in 1706. He was a Captain of Horse in the Trained Guards in the Jacobite rising.
Agriculture
The West Yorkshire Archaeological Society has documents relating to the three-field system that operated in the village in medieval times. Its fields were enclosed by 1759 and Home Farm was built by 1800. Evidence of brewing is the old malt kiln at the farm of the same name.
Industry
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries Matthew Wentworth bought “all the myne, and delff of ironstone” around Bentley Grange, the Byland Abbey property. Though the ironstone was exhausted by the mid-1600s, smithies continued to operate fuelled by charcoal. The furnace at Bretton supplied pig iron to Colnebridge, Wortley Top Forge and Kirkstall in 1728.
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