267 WJST RIDING . CLAYTO~"- Batty ,Richard, shoe maker Dnckett Mary (Miss}, echoolmistres' Stockdale Robert, grocer Burton William, coal merchant Ellershaw; -1 oho, farmer, Heigh Swale Margaret (Mrs.), china dealer Camm .lames,- tailor Eilershaw Jobn,jun. farmer Tbistlethwaite James, flirmer Carr John,. gamekeeper Foster John, farmer, Green close Thistlethwaite John, farmer, Bask ho Capstick Ann Chew ( Mn.)~ grocer, Foster Thomas, fdrmer, Hazle hall Whlnray Thomas, farmer,Little wat~n blacksmith, & post office Hutchinson Michael, farmer W olfenden Charle», fdl"mef Coates Henry, Flyi11g Horfld Sh06 J ackson J ames &: Thoma;~, farmers, hotel ~ po8ting hotaB,. RaUway statu Ryecroft house Feizor. CornthwaiteWm. farmer, W enniug 11ide Leeming Anthony, farmer, Hardacre Buck Grorge, farmer Crier 1 ames, parish clerk. Marsden Thomas, farmer Hodkimon John~ farmer Deighton Christopher, physician Metcalf John, farmer & assistant over.. Preston Mary & Son, fa.rmeril Faraday Thos. Armat, groeer & draper seer & collector of assessed taxes Wood Christopher, farmer Foster Robert, shopkeeper & post office Moore Richard, farmer,Crooklandafrm Wood lJavid, farmer receivinp; house, Rail way station N ewhouse Thomas,. far•oer, ~ ewby cote Geldard Wllliam, farmer; Leith butts Nowe}l Riehard, f.umer, Borren head Lawkland. Gr.en Marmaduke, farmer · Parker Robert, farmer, Hammond head, logleby Mrs. Alice, Crow'a nes~ Jl apes Robert, boot maker Parker Wilfred, farmer,. Newby cote Smith Rev. William [Catholic] Harrison John, cattle dealtcr Proctor John, farmer Watkics Rev. Bernard Edward K.A. Harrison John, farmer, Dovenanter Scambler Joshua, farmer~Keasden bead Lawkland hall Harrison Rchd. farmer,. Clapham. wO

CLAYTON is a township -and ecclesiastical parish formed Tbe area is 1,744: acre3; rateable value £16,848 159. The in 1858 from the parish of Bradford, 3 miles west from Brad­ area of the ecclesiastical parish iB 1,323 acres; population ford, with a station on the Great Northern railway, and is a 4,074. polling place for the Northern division of the Riding, in the Pariah Clerk, J ames. N orthrop.. petty sessional division of Bradford, wapentake of Morley, North Bierley union, Bradford county court district, honor of PosT 0PPICE.-William Briggs, receiver & distributor. Pontefract, rural deanery of Bradford, archdeaconry Letters arrive from Bradford at 7 a.m. & 3.15 p.m.; di&­ and diocese of ; and includes within its limits CLAYTON patched at 6.50 p.m. Box closes at 5.55 p.m. On suo­ liEIGHTs, where are two extensive reservoirs of the Brad­ days no mail. The nearest mo:aey order office is at ford Waterworks. The church of St. John the Baptist, built Thornton in 1850-1, is a stone structure in the Middle-Pointed style, lN s URANCE AGENT-Scott~hEquitable Life Assurance, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a tower with I hell. B. Ashton The register dates from the year 18.51. The living is a vicar­ PuBLIC EsTABLISHMENTs:- age, yearly value £287 with residence, in the ~ift of the vicar of Bradford and held by the Rev. George Leatherdale. The Lacal Board ofIIealth,Benjamin Ashton,clerk; Edmund Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists have cliapt:ls here. There Patchett, collector & assistant overseer is a local board of health, and the workhouse for North Bier­ North Bierley Union. Workhotae, Nathan Wilman ley union is situated here. The Clayton, Allerton and Thorn­ Wright, clerk; John , master; Mrs. Ann Martha tun Gas Company was incorporated 13th .1\lay, 1864, with a Helmsley, matron; Rev. George Leatherdale, chaplain.; 11ubscribed capital of £2.5,000 [since increased to£50,000], J oseph J ackson, medical officer in shares of £10 each. Here are several quarries and a coal SCHOOLS:- mine, as well as mills for the spinning and manufacture of National (mU:ed), Edmund Holdsworth, master~ Mrs. worsted. A Liberal club was established here in 1872, and Mary lnglet, mistress; Miss Mary Buttersby, infants' mist has about 160 members. The Sagar charities of £20 yearly Baptists' (mized), Benjamin Ashton, master 1 Miss value, are expended in distribution within the limih of the Sarah Tattersall, mistress township. James Atkinson Jowett esq. is lord ofthe manor. Suuday schools are maintained by the church & the various The ehief landowners are Major Stocks, John Foster, Francis denominations Sharp Powell, Joseph Hirst and Henry Sagar Hirst esqrs. Great Northern Railu:ay Station, ClaytonrSamuel llor .... The soil is clayey; subsoil, sandstone. It is chieHy pasture ton, station master land,.; The population in 1861 was 1>,600, and in 1811,6,436. CARRIER TO BRADFORD-John BriggsJthursday& friday