Gildersome, West Riding

Description
Gildersome, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The village has a station on a branch line of the G.N.R., about 8 miles distant from Bradford and Wakefield, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. The township comprises 993 acres; population, 3175. Many of the inhabitants are employed in cloth-making and in fulling-mills, dye works, and collieries. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; net yearly value, £160 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Batley. The church was destroyed by fire in 1873, and rebuilt in 1876. There are Baptist, Quaker, United and Primitive Methodist chapels. In 1892 the borough of Leeds purchased a large and suitable house, formerly called The Woodlands, for a Leeds House of Recovery and Convalescent Home.