Cononley, West Riding

Description
Cononley, a township and ecclesiastical parish in Kildwick parish, W. R. Yorkshire, on the river Aire, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and the Midland railway, 3 miles S by E of Skipton, with a station on the railway, and a post and money order office under Keighley ; telegraph office, Skipton-in-Graven; also a bank and water-works. Acreage of township, 1454; population, 881; of ecclesiastical parish, 1393. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage with Bradley annexed, in the diocese of Ripon; pint net value, £210, in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford. There are chapels for Baptists, Primitive Methodists, and Wes-leyans, and meeting-houses for Plymouth Brethren and Free Methodists. A number of the inhabitants are employed in worsted mills.