Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DENHOLME

DENHOLME, a hamlet and a chapelry in Bradford parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet is in Thornton township; stands 4¼ miles SSW of Saltaire r. station and 5½ W of Bradford; and has a post office under Leeds. The chapelry was constituted in 1846. Pop., 2, 816. Houses, 568. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is good; and there are three dissenting chapels and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bradford AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Denholme

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