Pudsey, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  West Riding  Pudsey

Parish History
PUDSEY, a township, in the parish of Calverley, union of Bradford, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York, 6 miles (W.) from Leeds; containing 10,002 inhabitants. This place, in the Domesday survey Podechesaie, anciently belonged to the Calverley family, by whom the manor was sold in the reign of Edward II. to the Milners, of whom Charles Milner, Esq. is the present lord. The township includes the hamlet of Tyersal, with a considerable portion of Stanningley, and comprises by measurement 2359 acres: the soil is tolerably fertile, and a large portion of it is in good cultivation; coal of inferior quality is found, and there are quarries of building-stone. The population is principally employed in the woollen manufacture, which is carried on to a very great extent; and within the township are not less than twelve joint-stock mills, which average about forty partners in each. The village formerly consisted only of a few scattered hamlets, but has been so much increased and connected by additional buildings, that it now forms one of the most extensive clothing towns in the West riding. It is situated on the brow of a lofty acclivity,and the valley is watered by a winding tributary of the river Aire, on the banks of which are numerous scribbling and fulling mills, and establishments for dyeing wool. An act for lighting was passed in 1845. The old chapel of Pudsey, built towards the close of the seventeenth century, is now disused; a church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, having been erected in 1823 by the Parliamentary Commissioners, at an expense of £13,362. It is a spacious and elegant structure in the later English style, with a lofty square embattled tower crowned by pinnacles, and, being on an eminence, forms a conspicuous and interesting feature in the landscape; the east window is of large dimensions, and enriched with stained glass; there are 2000 sittings, of which 660 are free. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income,£158, with a good residence; patron, the Vicar of Calverley. A church district named St. Paul's was endowed in 1846 by the Ecclesiastical Commission; the population of it is between two and three thousand, and the living is in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Ripon, alternately. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Kilhamites, Moravians, PrimitiveMethodists, and Wesleyans. On taking down an old house at Fartown, in 1834, 363 silver coins of the reignsof Edward VI., Elizabeth, James, and Charles I., were found.

From: Lewiss, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 618-621. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51225 Date accessed: 07 October 2011..

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