Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOPTON

HOPTON, a village in Mirfield parish, and a chapelry partly also in Kirkheaton parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Calder, near the Manchester and Leeds railway, 3 miles NE of Huddersfield; and has a post office under Normanton. -The chapelry was constituted in 1860. Pop., 1, 211. Houses, 238. Pop. of the Mirfield portion, 696. Houses, 139. The woollen manufacture is carried on. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £141. Patron, the Vicar of Mirfield. The church was built in 1846. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kirkheaton AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Upper Hopton

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