Bramley, West Riding

Description
Bramley, a manufacturing village a township, head of a union, and an ecclesiastical parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax railway, near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 4 miles NW by W of Leeds, and it has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. Area of township, 2505 acres; population, 14,787; of ecclesiastical parish, 8885. Cloth manufacture is carried on, and excellent stone is quarried. There are also tanning, currying, shoe-making, and iron-founding industries. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £330 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Leeds. The church of St Peter was rebuilt in 1863 at a cost of £5000. There are eight dissenting chapels, a church mission chapel, and several charities. There are also a Conservative Club, erected in 1889, a recreation ground, a branch of the Leeds public library, and a workhouse.