Eccleshill, West Riding

Description
Eccleshill, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Bradford parish, W. R. Yorkshire, near the river Aire, with a station on the G.N.R. The township includes also Apperley Bridge, Greengates, and Fagley, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bradford, and another at Apperley Bridge under Leeds. Acreage, 1220; population, 7928. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the woollen trade. There are also stone quarries, scribbling, spinning, and fulling mills. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1858. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £230 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Bradford. the parish church, which is dedicated to St Luke, was consecrated in 1848, and a new church, dedicated to St John the Evangelist, and intended to serve the district of Greengates and Apperley Bridge, was consecrated in 1893 as a chapel of ease to the parish church. There are four dissenting chapels, and a mechanics' institute with a good library, built in 1869.