WOOLLEY, a chapelry, with a village, in Roystone parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 1¾ mile ENE of Haigh r. station, and 5½ S by W of Wakefield. It has a post-office under Wakefield. Acres, 2,569. Real property, £5,053; of which £1,161 are in mines. Pop., 531. Houses, 108. W. Park is the seat of G. Wentworth, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £200. Patron, G. Wentworth, Esq. The church is later English. There are an endowed school with £18 a year, and charities £9.

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