Aberford, West Riding

Description
Aberford, a village, a township, and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the rivulet Cock, 3 miles NNE of Garforth railway station, and 5 1/2 SW of Tadcaster. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. It was formerly a market-town. A famous pin manufacture once flourished in it, but has disappeared. Coal, limestone, and a fine white building-stone are worked in its neighbourhood. Acreage, 1580; population of the civil parish, 612; of the ecclesiastical parish of Aberford St Recarius, 857. Walling Street bisects the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; not value, .£325 with residence. Patron, Oriel College, Oxford. The church is excellent. There are a Methodist chapel, a Roman Catholic chapel, and charities £300.