Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLECKHEATON, or Clackheaton

CLECKHEATON, or Clackheaton, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Birstall parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on an affluent of the river Aire, and on the Bradford and Mirfield railway, 5 miles SSE of Bradford; includes the hamlets of Scholes and Oakenshaw, and part of Hartshead-Moor; and has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Leeds. Acres, 1, 726. Real property, £18, 381; of which £1, 608 are in mines. Pop., 6, 231. Houses, 1, 316. The property is much subdivided. Many of the inhabitants are weavers. Vestiges of a Roman town were discovered here by Dr. Richardson.—The chapelry is of less extent than the township; and was constituted in 1842. Pop., 4, 721. Houses, 999. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Birstall. The church is a modern edifice, in the Gothic style, with a tower; and was built at a cost of £2, 387. An Independent chapel, in the Italian style, after designs by Lockwood and Mawson, was erected in 1859, at a cost of about £7, 500. There are also Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels, and two public schools. -The sub-district contains the townships of Cleckheaton, Hunswerth, and Wike; and is in the district of Bradford. Acres, 3, 956. Pop., 10, 446. Houses, 2, 223.


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

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Feature Description: "a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cleckheaton CP/Ch       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: CLACKHEATON     |     CLECKHEATON     |     CLECKHEATON OR CLACKHEATON
Place: Cleckheaton

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