Cumberworth, West Riding

Description
Cumberworth, a village and a township in W. R. Yorkshire, on the Huddersfield and Sheffield railway, nearDenby-Dale and Cumberworth railway station, and 8 miles SE of Huddersfield. The township consists of Upper and Lower Cumberworth, and part of Denby Dale, is governed by a local board, and has a post office at Upper Cumberworth under Huddersfield; money order and telegraph office, Denby Dale. Acreage of township, 1423; population, 1417; of ecclesiastical parish, 2350. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £160 with residence. The church, which was an ancient building, with remains of Early Norman work, was with the exception of the tower entirely rebuilt about 1878. A second church was erected for Denby in 1893. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Lower Cumberworth, and a Reformed Methodist chapel here.