Description
Farnley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Leeds parish, W. R. Yorkshire, within Leeds parliamentary and municipal; borough, 4 miles SW by W of Leeds. There is a post and money order office under Leeds;. telegraph office, Wortley. Acreage, 2084; population, 3590. Farnley Hall is a chief residence. The inhabitants are employed in ironworks, mines, stone quarries, and the woollen manufacture. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon. The present church was built in 1885 on the site of an older one, and is a fine stone building in the Decorated style. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels and a cemetery.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
