In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gildersome like this:
GILDERSOME, a village and a township-chapelry in Batley parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to a branch of the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax railway, 5 miles SW of Leeds; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Leeds. The chapelry comprises 1, 120 acres. Real property, £9, 103; of which £3, 450 are in mines. ...
Pop. in 1851, 2, 126; in 1861, 2, 701. Houses, 558. The property is subdivided. Many of the inhabitants are employed in cloth-making and in fulling-mills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120.* Patron, the Vicar of Batley. The church is ancient, but good; and has a tower. There are chapels for Baptists, Quakers, and Wesleyans, and an endowed school.
Gildersome through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Gildersome, in Leeds and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/425
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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