Birstwith, West Riding

Description
Birstwith, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Nidd, and on the Nidd Valley railway, 3 miles WSW of Ripley. It has a station on the railway and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. Acreage, 1802; population of the township, 474; of the ecclesiastical parish, 458. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £200 with residence. The church was built in 1857. There are two Methodist chapels. Coal was formerly worked. There are two gentlemen's seats in the parish£Swarcliff, the property of the Greenwoods; and Birstwith Hall a smaller place also belonging to the same family.