Allerton Bywater, West Riding

Description
Allerton-Bywater, a village, a township, and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire, on the Aire navigation, 5 miles NNW of Pontefract, with a post office under Normanton; money order and telegraph office, Castleford. Acreage, 981; population of the civil parish, 2305; of the ecclesiastical, 2919. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; gross yearly value, £220 with residence, in the gift of the Vicar of Kippax. The church was built in 1865, and is a fine building in the Early English style. There are also a Wesleyan chapel and a Church mission-room. The neighbourhood is famous for its excellent beds of coal. Malting is also carried on.