Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RAWDEN, or Rawdon

RAWDEN, or Rawdon, a village and a township-chapelry, in Guiseley parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on an acclivity, on the N side of the river Aire, near Apperley r. station, and 6 miles N E by N of Bradford; has a post-office‡ under Leeds; and gives the title of Baron to the Marquis of Hastings. The chapelry comprises 1, 535 acres. Real property, £7, 167. Pop., 2, 576. Houses, 495. R. Hall was the seat of the Earls of Moira, and is now a farm-house. Layton Hall was the seat of the Laytons, and has been converted into working-men's dwellings. Low Royd, Westfield House, Knotfield House, Benton Park, Woodlawn, Cragwood, Acacia, and Summerhill are chief residences. Cloth manufactureis carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £140.* Patron, Sir R. Jephson, Bart. The church was restored in 1864. A mission church is at Rawden. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Quakers, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists. There are also a Baptist theological college, built in 1859, at a cost of about £10,000; a Quakers' training school, for30 children of either sex; a Wesleyan school for the sons of ministers, with accommodation for about 150; a middle class school for sons of the professional and mercantile classes; national schools for boys, girls, and infants; a Church institute, a mechanics' institute, a working men's club, and charities £15.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Guiseley CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: RAWDEN     |     RAWDEN OR RAWDON     |     RAWDON
Place: Rawdon

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