Other current and historical names
Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Stanley within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Stanley.-- eccl. dist., township, and vil. with ry. sta., Wakefield par., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire - dist., pop. 4729; township (Stanley with Wrenthorpe - partly in the borough of Wakefield), 4074 ac., pop. 13,431; vil., 2 miles NE. of Wakefield; P.O.; has brickfields and ropemaking; at Pindar's Field Robin Hood is said to have fought the Pindar of Wakefield.
A village in Agbrigg hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.