Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CULLINGWORTH

CULLINGWORTH, a hamlet in Bingley parish, and a chapelry in Bingley and Bradford parishes, W. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet lies near the river Aire, the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and the North Midland railway, 3 miles SW of Bingley; and has a post office under Leeds. The chapelry was constituted in 1846. Pop., 1, 943. Houses, 385. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £130. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bingley Tn/AP/CP       Bradford AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Cullingworth

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