Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LOFTHOUSE

LOFTHOUSE, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Rothwell parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 1 mile E of the Leeds and Wakefield railway, and 3 N of Wakefield; and has a station, jointly with Outwood, on the railway, and a post office‡ under Wakefield.-The township contains also the hamlets of Ouzlewell-Green and Robin-Hood. Acres, 1,088. Rated property, £2,443. Pop., 2,028 The property is divided among a few. The manor, with Lofthouse House, beLongs to J. Charlesworth, Esq. Lofthouse Hall is the seat of P. Ramskill, Esq. Stone is quarried at RobinHood and Lee-Moor. Large quantities of vegetables arr sent to the markets of the neighbouring towns. Cordage and twine are spun. -The chapelry contains also the township of Carlton, and is sometimes called Lofthousewith-Carlton. Acres, 1,916. Rated property, £4,351. Pop., 2,099. Carlton was the seat of a family called Hunts, who took their name from their addictment to the chase; and it has soap-works and cordage-makers. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120. * Patron, the Vicar of Rothwell. The church was built in 1840; is a plain structure, in the early English style; and consists of nave and chancel, with bellturret. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school in Lofthouse, and a Wesleyan chapel and a Primitive Methodist chapel in Carlton.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village, a township, and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Lofthouse

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