Dacre, West Riding

Description
Dacre, a hamlet, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1862, and consists of the hamlets of Dacre and Dacre Banks, and is in Ripon parish; lies on the river Nidd and the Nidd Valley railway, 4 miles SE by S of Pateley Bridge; has a railway station, and a post and money order office of the name of Dacre Banks under Leeds; telegraph office, Summerbridge. The hamlets of Heyshaw, Braithwaite, and the Heights are in the township. Area of the township, 5382 acres ; population, 605. There are quarries and steam saw mills. Sir Henry Day Ingilby, Bart., is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Eipon; net value, -£275 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. The church was built in 1837 and the interior was restored in 1890, when a new lectern, font, and organ were fitted up. There is a Congregational chapel.