East Ardsley, West Riding

Description
Ardsley, East, a village and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire, with a station on the G.N.K., 3 1/4 miles NW of Wake-field. The parish has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wakefield. Acreage, 1818; population, 3075. Coal abounds, and there are iron-smelting works and a large woollen manufactory. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £369 with residence. Patron, the Countess of Cardigan. The church was entirely rebuilt and enlarged in 1881 on the site of the old one, and a mission church was erected in 1887, and there are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels. Half an acre of land was given by the vicar in 1885 and added to the churchyard.