Fewston, West Riding

Description
Fewston, a village, a township, and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Washburn, in Knaresborough Forest, 4 1/2 miles SSW of Darley railway station, and 6 N of Otiey. It has a post office under Otiey, money order and telegraph office, Otiey. Acreage, 2186; population of the township, 233 ; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Blubberhouses, 758. Two reservoirs of 300 acres in extent, belonging to the Leeds Corporation Waterworks, are supplied by the river Washburn. The parish contains also the townships of Blubberhouses, Great Timble, Thurscross, and Clifton- with-Norwoodr The living is a vicarage, united with Blubberhouses, in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon. The parish church has a square tower, and is good. There is a church at Blubberhouses, which is a chapel of ease to the parish church;, the living of Thurscross is a separate vicarage£ There are a Primitive Methodist and four Wesleyan chapels.