Altofts, West Riding

Description
Altofts, a village, a township, and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire, on the North Midland railway, at its transit over the Calder river and the Aire and Calder Canal, about a mile from Normanton station, and 3 1/2 miles NE of Wakefield. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Normanton, and is governed by a Local Board of Health. Acreage, 1837; population, 3791. The church is a fine building in the Gothic style, erected about 1878, contains a handsome reredos, a pulpit of Caen stone, &c. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; value, £242, with residence. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.