993 WEST RIDING . . aisles, and a tower with spire and 1 bell. The register dates township contains 1,806 acres; rateable value, £2,090; from the year 1746. The living is a vicarage, ~early value population, io 1871, tl03. £200 \l"ith re~idence, in the gift of the vicar of Letters ti·om Huddersfield. Slaitbwaite is the nearest money and held by the Rev. Henry Collins M.A. of St. John's order office College, Cambridge. Polemore Baptist chapel (and bury~ LOCAL BOARD. ing ground), built in 1790 and a new one in 1859, at a cost Clerk, Henry Collins of about .£1,700; it is a plain stone building, and will seat Medical Officer; James McLintock M.B.C.M.EDIN 640: there is a day and Sunday school in connexion at Suroeyor, William S) kes Clough Head, Golcar. The principal landowners are T. Inspector, George Taylor Horner esq. and Charles Hirst esq. The soil is various 1 Collector, J obn Barrett subi:!Oil, gravel. The chief crops are corn and grass. The National School (mixed), Miss Jane Brook, mistress Collins Rev. Henry M.A. [vicar] Haigh Alien, farmer Schofield Israel, farmer Evans Rev. James, PolPmore Haigh Amos, farmer Schofield Younger, tarmer COMMERCIAL. Haigh Enoch, farmer' Shaw Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Balmforth James & Son, joiners Hey John, f11rmer, Dean head Stott Abrabam, tarmer Barrett John, farmer Hirst Charles, farm bailiff' to William Sykes Alice (Mrs.), beer retailer Berry Hannah (Mrs.), farmer, Broad lee Gledhill esq Sy kes Benjamin, farmer & joiner Berry Henry, farmer Hirst Edward, farmer Sykes Betty (Mrs.), farmer Berry Joseph, farmer Hirst Henry, farmer, Hole bottom Sykes David, farmer Bottomley Jane (Miss), farmer Hoyle Henry, farmer Sykes John, farmer Co-operative Stores (David Wilkin- Jackman James, farmer Sykes Joseph, Upper Royal George son, manager) Littlewood Geo. farmer&. quarry owner Sykes Levi, farmer, & Royal George Crabtree John, woollen manufctr. Hey Lumb Sarah & Mary (Misses), shop- Sykes William, Nont Sarahs Crabtree John, farmer, Ardenby keepers, West Scar Sykes William, farmer Crabtreo Matilda (Mrs.), Shoulder of Lumb Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper Sykes William, woollen manufacturer Mutton Lumb George, jun. farmer, Scar Tweed Benjamin, farmer & cattle dealr Cros11ley John, farmer Lumb Geo. sen. farmer, Greatfield head Tweed David, farmer & cattle dealer Crowther William, farmer, Edgerton Lumb George,shopkeep~cr,Turner house Tweed Josepb, farmer&; cattle dealer Dawson Edwin, farmer Lumb Martba (Mrti.), farmer, Edgerton Wheelwright George, woollen manufctr Eastwood Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Lumb Mary (Mrs.), farmer Whiteley Hannah (Mrs.), farmer & Ellis Thomall, farmer & beer retailer Lumb Thomas, blacksmith shopkeeper Gee William, farmer Lumb Thomas, farmer Whiteley John, Commercial inn, & Gledhill George, farmer Lumb Walker, shoe maker quarry master Gledhill John, farmer MarsdenRoseHanh.(Mrs.),BrownCow Wilkinson Charles, farmer Gledhill Mark, lindsey manufacturer Mal'8den J oseph, farmer Wilkin110n John, shopkeeper & farmer Gledhill Robert, farmer Mitchell Peter, farmer Wilkinson Samuel, farmer Gledhill Tlwmas, farmer Raper Charles, farmer Wilkinson William, beer retailer

SCISSETT (or NoRTONTHORPE)is a villag-e in the town­ prising and Scis!!ett, 9 miles north· west from ship of Skelmanthorpe and ecclesiastical parish, formed in , 8 south-€ast from Huddersfield and 6 north-north~ 1840 out of the parishes of Elmley and , 9 west from Penistone, forming part of the ecclt·siastic·tl miles south-east from Huddersfield, 7 miles north-west h·om parish of Scissett, and is a station on the Barnsley, 2 north-east from the station, one branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. The We-;­ mile west from Clayton West station, and is a polling place leyan Reformers and Primitive Methodists have eac:h a chapel fur the Southerndivisionofthe Riding, in Huddersfield union, in the village. There is a poors' allotment of 7A.. Oa. 3!P. Barnsley county court district, rural deanery of Silkstone, producing £10 l2s. yearly. The fancy woollen trade is arehdeaconry of Craven and diocese of Ripon. The church carried on to a considerable extent. The soil is clay; sub­ of St. Augustine, rrected in 1839, is a building of stone, in soil, sandstone. The chief crops are wheat and oats. A por­ the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave and tion of Cumberworth Half is annexed to this village. Rate­ tower containing I bell ; the interior has undergone a able value, £5,630; the area of the township is 1,1.'}6 acres. thorough renovation, the cost of which was defrayed by sub­ scription. The registers date from the year 1839. Tk1e PosT & MoNEY ORDER OFFICE & Post Office Savings living is a vicarage, yearly value .£140 with residence, in the Bank.-Oswald Drummond, receiver- Letters arH !rlftofW. B.Beaumontesq.M.:P. andheld bytheRev.John received through Huddersfield, arrive at 8 a. m. & 3.30 Pat ton Bond M .A. of Edinburgh University, who is non-resi­ p.m.; dispatched at 9.30 a.m. &; 5.30 p.m. Clayton West dent: the Rev.Robey R. White B.A. ofCorpus Christi college, & Den by Dale are nearest telegraph offices Cam bridge,is the curate in charge. There is a Working Men's INSURANCE AGENT.-Royal Fire~ Life, H. Field, Skel• Club, supplied with newspapers and periodicals, and a police manthorpe station for the districts of Scissett, Skelmanthorpe, Denhy Dale and Clayton West. W. T. W. Spencer-Stanhope esq. SKELMANTHORPE LocAL BoARD OF HBALTH. J".P. is lord of the manor, the landowners are numerou~. Clerk, Alien Jackson The soil is clay ; subsoil, mineral. The chief crops are Medical Officer, Dr. Duncan, Ciayton West wheat, barley', oats &c. The rateable value is .£5,382; and Sun;eyor, Thomas Earn:~haw the population in 1871 was 3,159. Inspedor, Thomas Ellis, Denby Dale KITCHENROY o is a hamlet one mile west. The names Colleetor, Alien J ackson are given with Denby Dale. ScnooLs :- PosT OPFICE.--Charles Townsend, postmaster. Lettel'S A. School Board composed of 5 members was elected 23rd from Huddersfield arrive at 8.15 a. m. & 3.4.5 p.m.; dis- May 1878: Harry Field, clerk to Skelmanthorpe School patched at 9.35 a.m. & 5.20 p.m. week days only. Clayton Board Went is the.nearest money order & telegraph office Board School, with master's residence was erected in 1879 County Police Station, William Mansfield, sergeant for 250 children Natiortal School, James Thompson, master; Miss Hannah Here is a large & handsome National school, erected & sup- Alien, mistress ported by subscription; Thomas Simm, master Skelmanthorpe is a township and large village, corn- Railw(ly Station, Thomas Manu, station master Scissett. Burhouse Charles, shopkeeper Moxon Elizabeth (Mrs. ),grocer& baker Bottomley John Henry, N ortonthorpe Ewart William, dyer N orton Brothers & Co. Limited, fancy Box Mrs. Woodland mount Haigh Samuel, newsagent &; seediUDan woollen manufctrs. N ortonthorpemills Norton Benjamin, Nortonthorpe hall Higson Aaron, joiner Pell Sabina (Mrs.), herbalist Scholefield Ml'IJ. Cuttlehurst Hir&t Grace (M:rs.), yeast dealer Sciuett Co-optJrtLtU:B Society (Fred. White Rev. Robey R. B.A. [clll'&te in Hobsou Thomas, farmer Peace, manager). char~],.Vicarage KayeJO!Ieph&~ons,rope&twinemnfrs Sci.ssett WorJung Mm'• Club (Joe COMMERCIAL. Kendall Mark & Geor)!e,. farmers Willie Burhouse, sec) Barraclough Henry, tailor K.ilner Maria (Mra.), dress maker Shaw George, ale & porter bottler- Beanland R~ & Co .. wol'llted spinnenv & Lock.wood Henry, slwe.makel' Skerruw R.alpb C. tailor m~nutactore:ra; warehouse,20 Charlea Lock wood. J oho, ahoe maker Stead J oho,seo.to N ortonBros..&Co.Lim &tr~t:t, Bra.dlord . .l\'lorten Waiter & Sa.m,. paraffin oil dlnt Taylor ThomBB, beer retailer Brook George, house painter Morton. Henry, paraffin oil dealer Thickett Benjamin'J butcher 6J