Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OXENHOPE

OXENHOPE, two hamlets and a chapelry in Bradford parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The hamlets are called Far O. and Near O.; lie about 2 miles S of Haworth r.station, and 5 S of Keighley; and have a post-office, of.the name of Oxenhope, under Keighley. The chapelryextends westward to the boundary with Lancashire, and was constituted in 1845. Rated property, £5, 356. Pop.in 1851, 2, 997; in 1861, 2, 880. Houses, 594. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Capt. Edwards. Mould Grange is the residence of J. Rushworth, Esq.; and Hey House, of Mr. J. O. Ackroyd. Worsted manufacture is carried on. The living is a p.curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1849, at a cost of about £1, 300; and is in the early Norman style, with a tower. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans and a free grammar-school.


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

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Feature Description: "two hamlets and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bradford AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Oxenhope

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