Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Shelf within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Shelf, town and township, Halifax par., and eccl. dist., partly also in Bradford par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 3 miles NE. of Halifax - dist., pop. 3578; township, 1302 ac., pop. 2754; P.O., T.O.; is a local government district, and has mfrs. of worsted and damask; contains Shelf Hall, seat.
A village in Morley hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.