Adel cum Eccup, West Riding

Description
Adel, a township and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The township is 2 miles from Horsforth railway station, and 5 NNW of Leeds; and it is joined to Eccup, forming Adel-cum-Eccup, and also includes the hamlet of Cookridge and part of East Breary. Post town, Leeds. Acreage, 4890 ; population of the civil parish, 1161; of the ecclesiastical, 1104. There is a large reservoir in connection with the Leeds water-works. Remains of a Roman camp and villa are in a field a mile N of the church. There is a museum at the churchyard gate containing Roman altars, stone coffins, and other antiquities. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £751. The church is a very fine Norman edifice, erected about 1140 A.D. There are two schools, the Leeds Boys' Reformatory, a cemetery, and some bleach-works, There is a Wesleyan chapel at Eccup, and a Convalescent Hospital at Cookridge, founded by John Metcalfe Smith, Esq., in 1868, with accommodation for 100 inmates.