Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WOODSIDE

WOODSIDE, a chapelry, chiefly in Guiseley parish, but partly also in Leeds and Addle parishes, W. R. Yorkshire; near Horsforth r. station, and 5 miles NW by W of Leeds. It was constituted in 1845; and its Post town is Horsforth, under Leeds. Pop. in 1861, 2,815. Houses, 568. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is in the decorated English style.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Leeds AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Woodside

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