Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WOODHOUSE

WOODHOUSE, a chapelry in Leeds parish, W. R. Yorkshire; within Leeds borough. It was constituted in 1831; and its Post town is Leeds. Pop. in 1861, 6,072. Houses, 1,334. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £140.* Patrons, Trustees. The church was built in 1825, at a cost of £10,456.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Leeds AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Woodhouse

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