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Batley is recorded in the Domesday Book as 'Bateleia'. After the Norman conquest, the manor was granted to Elbert de Lacy and in 1086 was within the wapentake of Morley. [3] It subsequently passed into the ownership of the de Batleys, and by the 12th century had passed by marriage to the Copley family.