KETTLEWELL, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district in Skipton district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands between the mountains Whernside and Hardflask, near the river Wharfe, 13 miles NE of Settle r. station and 14 N of Skipton; was nearly inundated by rain floods in 1686; and has a post office under Skipton, two inns, a church, a Wesleyan chapel, a mechanics' institute, an endowed school, a weekly corn market on Thursday, and cattle fairs on 6 July, 2 Sept., and 23 Oct. The church was rebuilt in 1820; comprises nave, aisle, transept, and chancel, with porch and tower; and contains several mural monuments, and a font of 1100. -The township comprises 5, 507 acres. Pop., 485. Houses, 116.—The parish includes also the township of Starbottom, and comprises 8, 455 acres. Real property, £4, 349. Pop., 646. Houses, 154. The property is much subdivided. The land is chiefly moor and upland pasture; and it exhibits much interesting mountain landscape. There are lead mines; and more of them were worked formerly than now. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120. Patron, R. Foster, Esq.—The sub-district contains also parts of two other parishes. Acres, 30, 262. Pop., 1, 141. Houses, 256.

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