Calverley, West Riding

Description
Calverley, a town and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the south side of the river Aire, and on the Leeds and Bradford railway, 4 1/2 miles NE of Bradford, and has a station called Calverley Bridge, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. The civil parish includes also the town of Parsley and the hamlets of Priesthorpe and Woodhall-Hill, and bears the name of Calverley-with-Farsley. Acreage, 3180; population of the civil parish, including the part in the county borough of Bradford, 9657 ; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2566. The ancient ecclesiastical parish included also the townships of Pudsey, Bolton, and Idle, and the hamlets of Thornbury and Windhill. Calverley Hall was the seat of the ancient family of Calverley, and the scene in 1604 of the subject of the Yorkshire Tragedy, erroneously ascribed to Shakespeare. The town is governed by a local board. Many of the inhabitants are employed in woollen and worsted mills, and there are extensive stone quarries in the neighbourhood. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon ; value, £280 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1869. There are three dissenting chapels, a Conservative Club, and mechanics' and church institutes.