Birkenshaw, West Riding

Description
Birkenshaw, a railway station, two hamlets, and an ecclesiastical parish in Birstall parish, in the W. R. Yorkshire. The station is on the G.N.R., 4 1/2 miles SE of Bradford. The hamlets are Birkenshaw and Birkenshaw-Bottoms, which stand near the railway station, within Gomersal township, the former having a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. The ecclesiastical parish bears the name of Birkenshaw-cum-Hunsworth. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, including Hunsworth, 3870. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in collieries and worsted mills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; net value, £276 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Birstall. The church was built in 1830, and restored and enlarged in 1892 at a cost of £3400. There are Wesleyan and Methodist Free Church chapels.