Adel . Walker William Hopwood, Holly Bank England John, Farmer, York Gate Farm • Williarns John, Moor Grange England Thos
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• ADEL (or AnnLE-CUM-Eccup or EcHOPR) is a. township wood and the'Rev. Thomas Sheepshanks M. A. of Arthington and parish.5 miles north-north-west from Leeds, 5~ south- Hall, Leeds, are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey; east from Otley and 2 north-east from Horsfurth railway the subsoil, part clay and part gravel. The chief crops are station; it is in Barkston Ash division of the West Riding of wheat, barley, oats and potatoes. The acreage of the hamlet Yorkshire, upper division of the wapentake of Skyrack, Adel only is r,o3oA. 3R. 31P. and with Eccup 4,89oA. The Leeds petLy sessional diYision and county court district, population of the township in r88r was r, 190. The area of Wharfedale union, rural deanery of Whitkirk, archdeaconry the entire parish is, including shooting, 9,304 acres; rareable of Craven and diocese of Ripon. The church of St. John the value of township, which includes the hamlets of Adel, Baptist, erected about rqo, is one of the most interesting Eccup and Cookridge and part of East Breary, £12,125; and valuable examples of the Norman style in this country, population 1,639. and owes its preservation in a great degree to the retired CooK RIDGE is a hamlet in Addle-cum-Eccup township and situation in which it is built: it consists of chancel and nave parish. The Cookridge Convalescent Hospital, standing and a western bell gable, pierced with two Norman arches, in about 10 acres, pa:-t of certain closes called the" Fox and containing 3 bells, recast in 1839: the south doorway is Covert, and the " Seed Field,, being parcel of the Trelaml. a highly enriched specimen of the style, and the corbel table Wood estate, was erected by John Metcalfe Smith esq. at is ornamented by a variety of grotesque and well-sculptured his own cost, and by deed, bearing date wth December, heads: the principal feature of the interior is the chancel- 1868, vested in trustees, is to be used for the reception of arch, elaborately wrought in three orders: most of the patients from the General Infirmary of Leeds, and such Nor man windows remain,but there are some later insertions : other places as the managers for the time being may think the former stained east window, now removed to the new fit; the building will hold 65 males and 35 females ; the vestry, is filled with various armorial bearings of the Arth- hospital sustained a heavy loss in 1370 by the death of its ingtons and other families formerly resident in the parish, founder, to perpetuate whose memory a separate fund has and is dated 1681: there are also in the chancel small been raised, called the Metcalfe Smith Memorial Fund. memorial window and tablets to Thomas Kirke: of Cookridge The managers of the infirmary have a right to send to this (1706), the ~ev. Mr. Jackson, rector here m 1766, and hospital 123 p3tients annually, free of charge, on account of George Hutchmson, _of A~el (1826): there are no monuments,' the Metcalfe Smith Memorial Fund, a donation from the l~te and but one brass, mscnb~d to the Rev:. John H~rker and Miss Dawson and one from .Messrs. Tetley and Son; the dated 1761 : the font consists of a basm of. ancient d~te, committee, who are elected annually, have the entire mounted on a modern base, and there remams an ancient management and appoint the resident officials. oak chest: the church was thoroughly restored under the direction of the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. in 1879; a new Eccup or ECHOPE is a hamlet in the parish of Addle-cum organ being erected and the whole re-seared with solid oak: Eccup. A large reservoir in connection with the Leeds the roof of the nave was at the same time raised to its water works is here. Here is a Wesleyan chapel WALL original pitch, and the vestry entirely rebuilt. The register LETTER Box at the school, cleared II a. m. week days only. dares from the year 16o6. The living is a rectory, tithe Parish Clerk, Joseph Mawson. rent-charge £597, net yearly value £8oo, including 127 Two WALL LETTER BoxEs in the hamlet of Adel, one near acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of and held since the boundary & the other at the N atinnal school, are 1874 by the Rev. Arthur Standidge B. A. of Christ's College, cleared at 7.30 a. m. & 6.30 p.m. on week days only. Cambridge. The Headingley-cum-Burley Cemetery, situated Letters through Leeds. Horsforth is the nearest money at Lawnswood, was opened in December, 1875, and has an order office area of about n acres, with two mortuary chapels. The Headingley-cum-Burley Cemetery, Lawnswood, Charles Society of Friends also have a burial ground at.New Adcl. Stuart Irvine, clerk & registrar Kirk's Charity, left by Thomas Kirk, a London merchant, · ScHOOLS :- is for the distribution of bread on Sundays and holy days. National (mixed), Adel, built in 1875, for 96 children: A scheme for the administration of this charity was granted a'Terage attendance, 62; Jonas Atha, master; .Mrs. Alice by the Court of Chancery in 1870 and the money invested in Atha, mistress two farms, now producing £8o yearly. There are evidences National (mixed), Eccup, 'built in 1846, for 40 children; of a Roman station here, supposed b} some to have been the average attendance, 32 ; Edward Clark, master; :Vlrs. Bur.qodurum of the Romans; many curious stones of very Clark, mistress ancient date have been discovered. Bleaching is carried on Leeds Boys' Reformatory of the Leeds Society for the Re- here. Wormald Henry Wormald esq. of Sawley Hall, Ripon, formation of Juvenile Offenders,Adel, opened in December, is lord of the manor of Cookridge; Messrs E:idison Brothers, r857: the average number of boys is now rso; Charles of Leeds, lords of the manor of Adel, with the Earl of Hare- 1 Godfrey Twigg, master Adel . Walker William Hopwood, Holly bank England John, farmer, York gate farm • Williarns John, Moor grange England Thos. farmer, East moor farm PRIYATE RESIDENTS. Headingley- cum- Hurley Cemetery Appleton Henry, Church Lane l:ouse COMMERCIAL. (Charles Stuart Irvine, clerk & regis- Croysdale William, Oak Lea .Atha .Alice (Mrs.), mistrms of National trar), Lawnswood Davies John school Ingham Edwin, bleacher & farmer, Eddison John Edwin M. D. The Lodge Atha Jonas, master of National school Scotland mill Eddison Octavius B. A. St. Helens Beanland Tom William Barker, corn- Irvine Charles Stuart, clerk & registrar Eddison Robert William, The Manor mercial traveller, Park view of Headingley-cum-Burley cemetery, Ford The Misse..'l, Adel grange Cloudsdale Thos. commercial traveller, Lawnswood Hill William, The Heath Hawthorn cottage Lambert Henry, shopkeeper Hirst James Andus, Adel towers Craddock & Ingham, farmers, Adel Mill Leeds Society for the Reformation of Humble Richard, Rellevue farm Juvenile Offenders (J. Rawlinson Lawson Frederick William, Oaklands Davison John, wheelwright & joiner Ford, hon. sec.) Lewthwaite Rev. George M.A. [curate Dykes Robert, farmer Potter Timothy, boot maker of St. John the Baptist] Eddison John Edwin M. D. physician, Roundell William, farmer Standidge Rev. Arthur B.A. [rector] The Lodge Society of Friends' BurialGrnd.NcwAdel .