Heptonstall, West Riding

Description
Heptonstall, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Halifax civil parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on a bleak eminence, adjacent to the river Hebden, 1 1/4 mile NW of Hebden Bridge railway station, and 8 miles W by N of Halifax, and has a post office under Manchester; money order and telegraph office, Hebden Bridge. It has a cattle fair on Easter Tuesday. The ecclesiastical parish includes also the hamlets of Erringden, Langfield, Stanfield, and Wads-worth. Area of township, including the hamlet of Slack and part of Hebden Bridge, 5394; population, 4617; of the ecclesiastical parish, 5503. Lord Savile is lord of the manor. Much of the land is moor and common. There are cottoa and cotton-spinning manufactories. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; net value, £300 with residence. The church was built in 1854, near a previous church which became dilapidated and was dismantled; is in the Perpendicular style, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with square tower, and contains several stained glass windows. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and Free Methodist chapels, and several small charities.