Hepworth, West Riding

Description
Hepworth, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on a declivity,. under the backbone uplands of England, 2 miles SE of Holmfirth railway station, and 9 S by E of Huddersfield, and has a post office under Huddersfield; money order and telegraph office, New Mill. The township includes also the hamlets of Barnside, Foster Place, Meal Hill, Jacksons Bridge, and Law, and is governed by a local board of nine members.. Acreage, 2371; population, 1075. The manor belongs to the Earl of Yarborough. Ironworks were established in 1858, and there are several collieries. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1862. Population, 2211. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; net value, £140 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Kirkburton. The church was built in 1863, is in the Decorated English style, and consists of nave, chancel, and transepts, with vestry, tower, and steeple. There are Wesleyan, Free and Primitive Methodist chapels, and an endowed school, rebuilt in 1884.