Denby, West Riding

Description
Denby, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Penistone parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies at the head of the river Dearne, 8 miles W of Barnsley, and has a station called Denby Dale on the L. & Y.R., and includes the hamlets of Denby Dale, Dryhill, ExIey-Gate, and High Flats. Post town, money order and telegraph office, Denby Dale under Huddersfield. Acreage, 2877; population of the township, 1747 ; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2050. The ecclesiastical parish is larger than the township, was constituted in 1853, and includes the townships of Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; net value, £194 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Penistone. The church was rebuilt in 1843. There are four dissenting chapels. The chief industries are in fancy woollen goods, dye-works, and quarrying.