Barnoldswick, West Riding

Description
Barnoldswick, a township and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies adjacent to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 5 miles N of Colne, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Colne, and a station on the M.R. The parish is also called Gill-Kirk, from the situation of its church on the verge of a deep glen, and includes likewise the townships of Salterforth, Coates, and Brogden-with-Admergill. Acreage, 2129 ; population of the civil parish and urban sanitary district, 4131; of the ecclesiastical, 4758. Much of the surface is hilly. An abbey was founded here in 1147, but in consequence of local disputes was removed to Kirkstall. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon ; net value, £280 with residence. The church is a building in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. There are four dissenting chapels. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in cotton spinning and working the limestone quarries.