Burley in Wharfedale, West Riding

Description
Burley-in-Wharfedale, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in the civil parish of Otley, in the W. R. Yorkshire, on the Leeds and Ilkley railway, 2 miles NW from Otiey, and 10 from Bradford. The township has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds, and a station at the junction of the M.R. and N.E.R. Area, 3133 acres; population of township, 2661; of ecclesiastical parish, 2467. It is governed by a local board of nine members. Greenholme, Walton House, Escroft Hall, Moorville, Burley Hall, Barley House, Wharfeside Grange, and Wharfeside are chief residences. Burley House was built in the latter part of the last century by Maude, the descriptive poet. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the Greenholme Mills, connected with the Bradford trade, of which mills the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, M.P., was for many years the principal proprietor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; gross value, £220 with residence. The church is a building in the Gothic style, erected in 1843 on the site of an earlier structure, and was restored and beautified in 1870 at a cost of upwards of £2000. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. A Jubilee Drill Hall was built in 1888, and is used for public meetings and entertainments. The lecture hall and schools of Greenhoime form a beautiful structure in the centre of the village, where a monument was erected by the villagers to the memory of the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, M.P., who died in 1886. His remains are interred in the God's Acre, opened in 1885, a short distance from the church he so regularly attended.