Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PADDOCK

PADDOCK, a chapelry in Huddersfield township and parish, W. R. Yorkshire; within Huddersfield borough, and comprising a W suburb of Huddersfield town. It was constituted in 1842. Post-town, Huddersfield. Pop.in 1861, 3, 940. Houses, 830. The inhabitants arelargely employed in the woollen manufacture. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Huddersfield. The church was built in 1830, at a cost of £2, 500; and has an embattled tower. There are dissenting chapels, and a national school.


(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: Huddersfield CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Paddock

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