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Saddleworth in York County England History and GeographySADDLEWORTH, a chapelry in that part of the parish of ROCHDALE which is in the upper division of the wapentake of AGBRIGG, West riding of the county of YORK, 12 miles (S.W. by W.) from Huddersfield, containing, with Quick, 13,902 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Rochdale. The chapel is dedicated to St. Chad. There are five places of worship for dissenters. A free school was founded in 1729, by Ralph Hawkyard, who endowed it with £280, and, in augmentation of the master's salary, John Walker, in 1755, bequeathed £200; the income arising from these sums is applied to teaching poor children of the parish, and supplying them with books. The Huddersfield canal passes through the parish, and the manufacture of woollen and cotton goods is carried on to a very great extent; the number of looms employed in the fomer exceeding three thousand five hundred, and in the latter four hundred; there are more than one hundred mills on the river Tame and its tributary streams. A few coal mines are worked, and excellent freestone abounds within the chapelry. It is in contemplation to establish a market, and to revive a fair formerly held at the village. There are some interesting natural curiosities at Greenfield, consisting of huge caverns, rocks, and a stupendous rocking-stone, with many Druidical remains. Castle Shaw is said to have been a fortress of the Britons, round beads, similar to those contained in the barrows on Salisbury plain, and a brazen celt, having been discovered near it. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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