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STANLEY, a village, a chapelry, a township, and a sub-district, in Wakefield parish and district, W. R Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Calder, 2 miles SE of Outwood r. station, and 2 NNE of Wakefield; is a scattered place, really forming two villages; and has a post-office under Wakefield.—The chapelry was constituted in 1830. Pop. in 1861, 2,924. Houses, 440. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £230.* Patron, the Vicar of Wakefield.-The township includes the NE suburbs of Wakefield, and 7 hamlets; contains Wakefield water-works, Wakefield workhouse, and the West Riding pauper lunatic asylum; bears the name of S.-with-Wrenthorpe; and comprises 4,345 acres. Real property, £26,272; of which £9,800 are in mines, and £20 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 7,257; in 1861, 8,237. Houses, 1,498. There are numerous good residences. A Roman station, with a Roman mint, was on an eminence above Lake Lock. Pindars Field, where Robin Hood is said to have fought the Pindar of Wakefield, is near Fieldhead. A boat-repairing yard is on the Calder; and there are brick-fields and roperies. The pauper lunatic asylum was built at a cost of more than £100,000; and, at the census of 1861, had 1,041 inmates. Stanley church was built in 1824, at a cost of about £12,000; underwent repair in 1851, at a cost of £1,100; and is in the later English style. The township contains also Outwood church, seven dissenting chapels, two national schools, and two alms houses. -The sub-district is conterminate with the township.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a chapelry, a township, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Yorkshire AncC |
| Place names: | STANLEY | STANLEY WITH WRENTHORPE |
| Place: | Stanley |
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