Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HORBURY

HORBURY, a village, a parochial-chapelry, and a sub-district in Wakefield parish and district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the river Calder, and the Manchester and Leeds railway, 3 miles SW of Wakefield; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post office† under Wakefield. The chapelry includes also part of Horbury-Bridge village, and comprises 1, 183 acres. Real property, £10, 969; of which £10 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 2, 803; in 1861, 3, 246. Houses, 711. The property is much divided. The manor belongs to S. L. Fox, Esq.; and much of the land to D. Gaskell and J. F. Carr, Esqs. There are woollen, worsted, flannel, and yarn manufactories, and scribbling and fulling mills. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £230.* Patron, the Vicar of Wakefield. The church was rebuilt, in 1794, at a cost of £8, 000; is in the renaissance style; and consists of nave, chancel, and transept, with tower and spire. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Free Methodists; a large national school; and a female penitentiary, together with an hospital for incurables, established in 1858, conducted by Sisters of Mercy, and maintained in buildings erected in 1862-5. -The sub-district is conterminate with the chapelry.


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

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

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