Ackworth, West Riding

Description
Ackworth, a large village, a township, and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire, 3 1/2 miles S of Pontefract. It contains High and Low Ackworth, Moor Top, and Brackenhill, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Pontefract, and a station on the Swinton and Knottingley Joint railway. It is a polling station for the Osgoldcross division of the Riding. Acreage, 2643; population of the civil parish, 2647 ; of the ecclesiastical, 2526. Ackworth Park, Ackworth House, Ackworth Court, Moor Top House, and Rhyddings House, and several good villas, are chief residences. Stone is largely quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; gross value, £420 with residence. Patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. The church is in the Early Decorated style, and rich in carved oak and stained windows, and contains a font dating from 1663. There is also a new district church at Moor Top. There are chapels for Quakers, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Roman Catholics, a large and famous Quakers' school and training college for masters, two endowed schools, two other schools, and charities amounting to £200.