Drighlington, West Riding

Description
Drighlington, a township and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on a branch of the G.N.R., 5 miles SE by E of Bradford, and has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bradford. It includes the hamlet of Adwalton, is governed by a local board of nine members. Acreage, 1136 ; population, 4322. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; net value, £360 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Wakefield. The present church, a building in the Perpendicular style, was erected in 1877-78 near the site of the old one, at a cost of about £9000. There are also Congregational, Wes-leyan, Primitive Methodist, Methodist Free, and New Connexion Methodist chapels, a temperance hall, and a mechanics' institute; also Liberal, Conservative, and working men's clubs. Archbishop Margetson was a native, and built and endowed a grammar school, and by a scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 1872, the site of the school and endowment (a rent charge of £60 per annum) was handed over to the school board, who constitute the governing body of the charity. The original grammar school was too dilapidated for use, and the board schools stand on its site. Worsted spinning and cloth making are the chief occupations, and there are some extensive mineral water works. Coal mining (although the present seams are nearly worked out) is, however, still the chief occupation of the parish. Several fairs for cattle and horses aie held at Adwalton during the year.