Greetland, West Riding

Description
Greetland, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 3 miles SSW of Halifax, and has a station on the L. & Y.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Halifax. The ecclesiastical parish is part of the township of Elland-cum-Greetland. Population, 1627. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Halifax. The church was built in 1860, consists of nave, chancel, transept, aisle, and porch, and has a tower with pinnacles, and is in a mixed Gothic style. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Free Methodist chapels.