Hartshead, Lancashire

Description
Hartshead, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Dewsbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village lies 2 1/2 miles ENE of Brighouse, 4 W by N of Dewsbnry, and 1 1/2 mile from Cooper Bridge station on the L. & Y.R. It has a post office under Liversedge; money order office, Robert Town; telegraph office, Hightown. Acreage of township, 863; population, 991; of ecclesiastical parish, 1676. There are collieries and stone quarries in this township. The Duke of Leeds is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £260 with residence. The church, dedicated to St Peter, is ancient, in Norman style of architecture, has a square tower, and was thoroughly restored in 1881. There is a Wesleyan chapel.