Harold William Timperley (1890–1964) was an English author of local history and topographical studies, the most notable of which was illustrated by L. S. Lowry.
The family moved to Chorlton, a southern suburb of Manchester, where his sister Violet was born when he was aged 13 so she played little part in his childhood.
[2] On the basis of this Noel Carrington asked Timperley to provide an introduction to the collection of articles that he published in April 1933 to promote the Lygon Arms hotel in Broadway, Worcestershire.
[5] Timperley's work with his wife on the ancient trackways of Wessex made extensive use of earlier sources and proposed the existence of several previously unidentified routes.
Some of these proposals, such as a North Hampshire Ridgeway, were not accepted by archaeologists because the routes were not associated with any ancient settlements and their theories are now discredited.