Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HORSFORTH

HORSFORTH, a village, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Hunslet district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Aire, near the Leeds and Harrogate and the Leeds and Bradford railways, 5 miles NW of Leeds; is large and populous, a seat of the clothing trade; and has a station on the railway, a post office‡ under Leeds, a mechanics' institute, two national schools, and an iron bridge over the Aire, erected in 1819.-The township includes also the hamlets of Woodside and West End, and is in Guiseley parish. Acres, 2, 729. Real property, £10, 793; of which £120 are in gas works. Pop. in 1851, 4, 584; in 1861, 5, 281. Houses, 1, 095. The increase of pop. arose from extension of the woollen cloth trade, and from employment at bleach works, a silk mill, and stone quarries. The manor and much of the land belong to John S. Stanhope, Esq. Horsforth Hall is occupied by John Marshall, Esq.—The chapelry includes only part of the township. Pop., 2, 466. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150.* Patron, J. S. Stanhope, Esq. The church is a plain edifice. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, New Connexion Methodists, and Free Methodists. See Woodside.—The sub-district contains all Horsforth township and two townships of Otley and Harewood parishes. Acres, 5, 530. Pop., 5, 733. Houses, 1, 206.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Horsforth Ch/CP       Hunslet RegD/PLPar/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Horsforth

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