Beamsley, West Riding

Description
Beamsley, a township in the W. R. Yorkshire, on the river Wharfe, 6 miles E by N of Skipton, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office and railway station, Bolton Abbey. Acreage, 2118; population, 179. It is for civil purposes in Bolton Abbey parish; ecclesiastically, half in Bolton Abbey and half in Addingham. There is an hospital, founded in the reign of Elizabeth by Margaret, Countess of Cumberland, for 13 poor widows, the income of which is £357.