1359 WEST RIDING . ST.AINFOR1H. Roundell John, farmer Denison Isaao, farmt-r Mnrgatroyd Elizabeth (Mrs.J, shopkpr Towers Joseph, farmer Denison William, farmer Noble John, farmer Walker William, farmer Dibb John, farmer Nob le Mark, butcher Wood John, smith Major, 11mitb & post office Noble Thos. farmer & shoe ma.Maw hill

England William, butcher & earrier Nob le Zachariah 1 farmer Rigton. Farrer John, farmPr, Brackenthwaite Parker John, farmer Buck Rev. Alfred Ph.n l vicar] Hardcastle & Holmes, farmers Robinson Isaac Henry, wheelwright COM M ERCIA.L. Harper Frank, tiumer Rohinson John, farmer Bailey John, farmer Harper J oseph, f11rmer Rodgers Thomas, farmer Bateman David, shopkeeper How5on John, carrier Walls William, farmer Bateson & Dickinson, farmers Hudson Thoma!l, farmer&; maltster Wardman Charles, farmer Brogden William, farmer Jackson Mary (Mrs.), Squaret Com- Wilkinson Ann (Mrs.), farmer Butler Jame~, farmer pmses Wilkinson Cha..

STAINCLIFFE is a hamlet in the parisLI, township I!Chool ert>cted in 1879. The reservoirs of ' and and mur.ieipal borough of , and was formed into a·• and the Batley Waterworks Companies are ecclesiastical parish in 1868, being also in the union and here. The Dewsbury Workhouse is situated here. The county court district of Dewsbury, and It miles from that principal landowners are the trustees of the late J. B. town, in the rural deanery of Hirstall, archdeaconry of Greenwood esq. J .P. The area is 505 acres; the popula­ Craven and diocese of Ripon. The principal trade carried tion In 1871 was 4,336. on here is the manufacture of blankets. Christ Church is a Gothic building, consisting of chancel, nave, aisle, and PosT & MONEY ORDER 0Pl"ICE & Savings Bank.- tower, erected in 1867 from designs by W. H. Crossland Robert Walker Atkiuson, postmaster. Letters through esq. at a cost of £8,000, 11chooh and par!lonage being also Dewsbury arrive at 8 a.m. & 4.20 p.m. j dispatched at erected at a further sum of £3,900. The register datel!l 10 & 6.25 p.m from 1he year 1867, and is in very good condition. The National School, Thomas D. Tennant, master;- Mrs. Mary living is a vicarage, in the gift of the vicar of Batley, Jane Tennant, mistr~l!l )early value, £298with residence, and held by the Rev. St. Dewsbury Workhouse, William Henry Griffin, master; George Kerr M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The Wes- Richard Nowell Halliwell M.D. medical officer; Hannah leyans have a chapel here, and the Baptists a chapel and Thompson Griffin, matron Carr Thomas, Highfieltl Mill cottag-e Clayton James, butcher, Staincliffe rd Kaye & Wilson, blacksmiths Chad wick Edwd. Longfld. Staincliffe rd Clegg- Brothers, rag merchants Kaye Miles, wheelwright CrawshawHenry, Low. Stainclift'eroad Clegg Sarah Ann (Mrs.), rag merchnt Lister Mark, rag machine maker Dixon Winton, Staincliffe road Clegg Thomas, rag dealer Lock wood Joshua, china & glass dlr Farnhill Thomas, Staincliffe house Cooper Betty, greengrocer Milnes Henry, shopkf'eper Fenton Hy. Auty, Stainclii'e Hall road Cordingly Herbert, rag dealer Musgrave Andrew, Commercial inn Fox George, Thorncliffe Cordingly Samuel, taifor N ewsome J oseph Bailey, woollen manfr Fox J oe, The Farm Crab tree & Co. mungo & shoddy manu- Ohlroyd J ames, grocer H irst Geo. Hy. Cliffe cot. Staincliffe rd facturers, Spring mill Paddle Thomas, beer retailer Kerr Re\". St. George M.A. [vicar] CrowthPr Joseph, grocer Parker John, wool & rRg merchant Littlewood Benjamin P Dawson William, statnr. & tobacconist Pickering Thomas, willey & rag ma- Lulld :'amuel, Brook house Denton William & Son, woollen manu- chine tooth maker Newsome Joseph Bailey facturers, Highfleld mill Richanison Brothers, joiners Pickering Mrs. Common road Dixon Alfred, boot & shoe maker Scott Waiter, butcher Rolhery Benjamin Edmondson Jacob, butcher Sheard Benjamin, Crown rltevens Mrs. 8taincliffe hall Farnhill Thomas, wool merchant Street Mark, rag merchant Taylor Joseph · Fox Ephraim & 8ons,shoddy merchants Stubley John Blackburn, rag dealer Thornton Jonas Moore & cotton spinners Stubley Joseph, rag dealer Wilson Mrs. Bank house, Staincliffe rd France Dohson, beer retailer Swires Dnid, New inn, Stafncliffe rd COMMERCIAL. France Jost>ph, beer retailer Tattersfield Jolm & Son,blanket manfrs Armitage & Street,painters&decorators Heckmondwike IndUlltrial C(}-opera- Tattersfield,Oddy&Co.scribhling millers Atkinson Benjamin,tailor,Stainclifferd tive Society (Joseph Simpson, mu- Tattersfleld Jeremiah. ulanketmanufr Hailey George, wool & waste dealer mager branch No. 1; Enoch Sheard, Tattersfield Moses, blanket manufactr Brown Martba (.Mrs.), shopkeeper branch No. 7; Charles Midwood, Terry John, fruit & potato merchant CarrThos. woollen manufr.Highfld.mill branch No. 9) Terry Thomas, rag merchant Chadwick Edward & Sons, builders & Illingworth Benjamin, millwright Walker Edwin & Son, rag merchant timber merchants Ineson Joseph, Butchers' Arms Ward Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer Ch'ldwick Jeremiah, woollen draper, Jngham John, printer Watson Richard, draper Staincliffe road Ingham William Henry, mungo mer Worsnop Joseph, boot & shoe maker, Clarkson Joseph, cabinet maker Jowet Samuel, rag merchant Staincliffe Hall road

STAINFORTH is a township and village in the parish the time bein~ should think most fit j the Rev. Mr. Holgate of Giggles wick, formed into an eccleoiastical parish in 18!3, also left by will the snm of £500 for the endowment of the from the parishes of Arncliffe, Giggleswick and Kirkby-in­ school, Mr. John Batty £200 and Miss Davidson £200 for Malham Dale; it is 2~ miles north from Settle, 16 south­ the same purpose. Thomas Foster Knowles e~q. and the east from Kirk by Lonsdale, 18~ south-west from 8kipton, in Rev. Francis Witts are proprietors of Little Stainfortb. the Northern division of the Riding, petty seS!Iional division William Maudsley Dawson, Christopher Brown, William of West Staincliffe, western division of the wapentake of Foster and John Sharp esqn. Mr!!. 8tackhouse and Miss Staincliffe and Ewcross, union and county court district of Giles aJ1l chief landowners of Great Stainforth. The Boil is Settle, rural deanery of North Craven, archdeaeonry of clayey; the subsoil is limestone a.nd bluestone. The land is Craven, diocet~e of Ripon aud province of York, and is situ­ wholly pasture. The area is 3,6!:16 acres; rateable value, ated on the river Ribble. The church of St. Pett>r is a stone .£3,784; the population of the township in 1861 was 194 j huildin~ in the Perpendicular style, and has an apsidal naTe, l g71, 390 ; of the ecclesiastical parish 403. five stamed windows, square embattled tower and 3 bells. Pariah Clerk of Stainforth Chapelry, Anthony Sharpe. The register dates from the year 1843. The living is a per­ petual curacy, yearly value £158 with residence, in the gift PosT OPPICB Receiving House.-Richal'd Parker,receiver. of five trustees and held by the Rev. John Stackhouse M.A.. Letters arrive from Settle (which is the nearest money St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. .M:iS!I Alice Preston, order office) at 9.45a.m.; dispatched 4.30 p.m.; sundays, formerly of this viUage, left by will £3(}(), to be invested in 10.30 a.m. only the fur.ds, directing the interest therefrom to be applied to­ The Village School, situated near the chorclt, was built by wards the school and poor of this place, as the incumbent for subscription at a cost of £300; Miss Mary Wlldman, mis PRJTA.'l'K RESIDE]'{T8. Foster David Knowles Thomu Foster Arrnistead Miss Foster Mrs. Townhead Perfect William Geor~ Brown Christopher Mn • Gornall Stackhouse Rev. John K,.l..,s.P.[viear]