Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HALEY-HILL

HALEY-HILL, a village and a chapelry in Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village is in North Owram township, and suburban to Halifax, on the town's NE side. The chapelry was constituted in 1855; and its post town is Halifax. Pop. in 1861, 5, 235. Houses, 1, 124. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £230.* Patron, Lieu. col. Akroyd. The church was built in 1859, at the cost of E. Akroyd, Esq., after designs by G. G. Scott; stands on an eminence, figuring conspicuously in the landscape of town and country; is in the geometrical decorated style, of the time of Edward I.; comprises nave, with aisles terminated eastward by transepts, and chancel, with chapels on the N and S sides; has a very graceful tower and spire, 236 feet high; is ornamented with marble, serpentine, and alabaster, and with many hagiological sculptures; and has a pulpit of Caen stone. A House of Mercy was erected in 1866.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Halifax AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Haley Hill

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