VILLAGE INSTITUTIONS. facturing works of Messrs. W. & H. Foster, to Denholme Industrial Co-operative Society. whose enterprise the v1llage mainly owes its pros­ President-Mr. H. Holden. Secretm·y-Mr. John perity. Mrs. Wm. Foster and Mrs. Eli Foster occupy Rusby. Store-keeper-Saml. Dixon. commanding residences- known as Whiteshaw and Waterloo. Fieldhead hou~e is the residence of Mr. 1:--idney Swaine, wool merchant, . Coal is obtained to some extent, the principal firm Places of Worship. engaged being that of Messrs. J. 0. Wood & Co., ST. PAuL's CHURCH, Denholme Gate.-Erected 1846. Denholme colliery; also an extensive brewery, and a Value of living, £200 with Parsonage. Number of pottery for the manufacture of brown ware. The sittings, 704. Patrons, Bishop of Ripon and the Church of St. Paul, Denholme Gate, occupies a com­ Crown alternately. Vica1·, Rev. A. Brown. Organist, manding position, and contains an excellent peal of Mr. Jonathan Bairstow. Choinnaster, Mr. S. bell;;. There are also places of worship in Deuholme Harrison. Hours of Service-Sundays, 10.30 a.m. belonging to the Wesleyans, Wesle) an Reformt>rs, Inde­ and 6 p.m. Sunday School. pendents, Baptists, and Primitive Methodi~ts. Den­ WESLEYAN CHAPEL, Denholme.-Erected 1869 (old holme forms a portion of the district of the Thornton chapel 1793). Number of sittings, 800. Organist School Bo~d, which has erected handsome schools at and Choirmaster, Mr. John Brooksbank. Chapel. Lodge gate and Keelham. There is also an excellent keeper, William Lund. Hours of Service-Sundays, Mechanics' Institute and a Foresters' Hall, both of 10.30 a.m., and 6 p.m. Sunday School. which buildings contain assembly rooms. A branch PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL, Denholme Clough.­ of the Bank is open at Denholme on W ednes­ Erected 1834. Circuit Ministers, Revs. M. Knowlson days. The area of the Local Board district of Denholme and J. Maylard. 01·ganist, Mr. Agus Robinson. Gate comprises 2653 acres. According to the census of Choi1·master, Mr. Ernest Robinson. Cha,., el-k eeper, 1891 the population was 3237, and the rateable value H. Horsfall. Hours of Service-Sundays, 2.30 and is about £12,500. Registmr of Births and Deaths, 5.30 p.m. Sunday School. Vaccination Officer, and Collector of Poor Rates, PRIMITIVE METHODIRT CHAPEL, Denholme.-Erected Robert Horsfall, Thornton. Relievivg Officel', 1884. Minibters, Revs. M. Knowlsonand J. Maylard. Wm. Margerison, Thornton. Sub-Postmaster at Den­ Chapel-keeper, Wm. Ogden. Hours of Service­ holme, S. Scholefield. First delivery, 7.15 a.m. ; Sundays, 2.30 and 5.3 l p.m. Sunday School. box closes, 10 a.m. Second delivery, 4.15 p.m.; box INDEPENDENT CHAPEL, Denholme.-Erected 1844. closes, 6.15 and 7.15 p.m. Parcels Post delivery com­ No resident Minister. Harmoniumist, Mr. 0. mences at Denholme at 7.15 a.m. and4.15p.m. Money Bancroft. Choirmaster, Mr. S. Sunderland. Chapel. Order business from 8 a.m. to 6p.m., and on Saturdays keeper, Fred Holden. Hours of Service-Sundays, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Denholme Gate-Postmaster, 10.3tl a.m. and 2.30 p.m. Sunday School. Timothy Ingham. Delivery, 7.45 a.m., box closes WESL!o:YAN REFORM CHAPFL, Denholme.-Erected 6 p.m. Parcels Post delivery commences at Denholme 1853, enlarged 1873. No re si ient Minister. Secretary, and Denholme Gate, 7.45 a.m.; parcels received up to Mr. S. Catherall. 01·ganists, Messrs. F. Catheralland 5.45 p.m. E. Foster. Chotrmaster, Mr. Frederick Tidswell. Chapel-keeper, Jacob Foster. Sunday School. Denholme Local Board. SoumGATE BAPTIST CHAPEL, Denholme.-Erected (Jhai?·man-Mr. William Foster. 1866. No resident Minister. HarrnO'II.'I/Umist, Mr. Members-Messrs. Jno. Foster, William Bancroft, Oliver Smith. Choirmaster, Mr. J ervis Benn. Jacob Baxa11dall, Frederick Tidswell, Timothy Chapel-keeper, Mrs. Mary Briggs. Hours of Pickles, William Pickles, and Pearson Robinson. Service-Sundays, 10.30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday Olm·k-George Burr, solicitor, . School. Medical Officer of Health-Dr. Jackson. Surveyor-Jonathan Austin. Oollector-Jonathan Bairstow. DRIGHLINGTON AND ADWALTON. Meetings of the Board are held in the Mechanics' The two ancient villages named above may be institute, on the first Tuesday in the month, at 2 p.m. practically regarded as one place, both as to proximity and interest. Togethm· they comprise the chapelry and township of Drighlington, and are situate upon the Denholme Mechanics' Institute, main roads from Bradford to , and to • Halifax, being about five miles from Leeds and Established 1849. Present building erected 1880. Bradford. Adwalton station also fonns a junction Prestdent-Mr. William Foster. Vice-Pt·esidents­ upon the Great Northern line of railway from Messrs. Thos. Pickles and Wm. Ingham. Tre11surer­ Bradford. Upon the moor at Adwalton, formerly Mr. Thos. Bancroft. Sect·etapy Mr. Timothy Holmes. known as " Atherton," an encounter took Hall-keeper Joseph Hoyle. place, on June 30, 1643, between the Royalists, Science classes, newsroom, billiards, library, &c. commanded by the Earl of Newcastle, and the Parlia­ Assembly Hall, sitting accommodation for 450. mentarians, led by Sir Thomas ]'airfax, when the forces of the latter were utterly routed. The moorland upon which the battle took place is still unenclosed. The Denholme Liberal Club. township of Drighliugton contains an area of 11,045 acres, and a population, according to the returns of P1·esident- Mr. Sidney Swaine, Fieldhead house. last census, of 4322. The rateable value is now Sec1·etary-Mr. Wm. Pickles. £10,498. Formerly the township contained valuable Rooms-Longhouse lane. beds of coal, but the Middleton bed is now nearly exhausted. The following firms are engaged in colliery operations, namely :-Messrs.. Rushforth and Denholme Conservative Association. Wheatley, Busher and Newmarket brickworks ; Mr. President-Mr. Eli Foster. Sec1·etary-Mr. Byron Fearnley , Spring Gardens colliery. Industries Feather. connected with the woollen and worsted trades are as Meets at Foresters' Hall. follow :-Messrs. W. M. Hudson & Sons, cloth manufacturers, Adwalton ; Messrs. Booth Bros., cloth manufacturers, V alley mill, Cockersdale ; Messrs. T. & S. Barron, New mill, Drighlington, manufacturers; Denbolme Gate Conservative Association. Messrs. J. Liley & Co., Moorland mill, Drighling­ President-Mr. A. Hartley. Sec1·etary-Mr. Young ton, worsted spinners; Mr. Middleton Liley, wool Atkinson. extractor, Drighlington, The lord of the manor is 50