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KIRKHEATON, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district in Huddersfield district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands in a valley, near the river Colne, and near the Leeds and Manchester railway and the Kirkburton branch railway, 3 miles ENE of Huddersfield; is a widely scattered place; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Huddersfield. The station on the Leeds and Manchester railway is at Heaton Lodge.- The township contains also Upper Heaton hamlet, and comprises 1, 609 acres. Real property, £5, 906; of which £600 are in mines, and £24 in quarries. Pop., 3, 011. Houses, 617.—The parish contains likewise the townships of Dalton, Lepton, and Upper Whitley. Acres, 6, 468. Real property, inclusive of Lower Whitley township, £29, 148; of which £2, 070 are in mines, and £50 in quarries. Pop., exc. of Lower Whitley, 11, 923. Houses, 2, 520. The manor of Kirkheaton belongs to Henry F. Beaumont, Esq. Heaton-Lodge, Ravensknowle, WhitleyBeaumont, Oak-lands, Greenhead, Grange-Hall, Grove House, Westfield House, and Mold-Green House are chief residences. The manufacture of fancy woollens, dresses, and vestings, silk spinning, cotton spinning, bleaching, dye-ware-grinding, woollen and cotton dyeing, the manufacture of chemicals, and the working of coal, are carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £700.* Patrons, Trustees. The church is partly ancient; was partly rebuilt in 1823, and in a subsequent year; and contains several handsome monuments of the Beaumont family. The p. curacy of Mold-Green is a separate benefice. There are, in the several townships, an Independent chapel, four Wesleyan chapels, two Primitive Methodist chapels, a Swedenborgian chapel, two national schools, three mechanics' institutes, and a workhouse; and the last, at the census of 1861, had 52 inmates.—The sub-district is conterminate with the parish.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Kirkheaton AP/CP Kirkheaton SubD Huddersfield RegD/PLU Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Kirkheaton |
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