Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MOLD-GREEN, or MOULD-GREEN

MOLD-GREEN, or MOULD-GREEN, a hamlet and a chapelry in Kirkheaton parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet is in Dalton township; forms a populous suburb of Huddersfield, on its NE side; has a post office.† under Huddersfield; is controlled by a local board of health, established in 1858; has gas-works and extensive chemical works; and carries on cotton-spinning, doubling, and bleaching, and the manufacture of fancy woollens, dresses, and other fabrics. The chapelry was constituted in 1863. Pop., about 3,600. The living is a p. cnracy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £66. Patron, the Rector of Kirkheaton. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kirkheaton AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: MOLD GREEN     |     MOLD GREEN OR MOULD GREEN     |     MOULD GREEN
Place: Mold Green

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