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HOPTON, a village in Mirfield parish, and a chapelry partly also in Kirkheaton parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Calder, near the Manchester and Leeds railway, 3 miles NE of Huddersfield; and has a post office under Normanton. -The chapelry was constituted in 1860. Pop., 1, 211. Houses, 238. Pop. of the Mirfield portion, 696. Houses, 139. The woollen manufacture is carried on. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £141. Patron, the Vicar of Mirfield. The church was built in 1846. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Kirkheaton Parish Yorkshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Upper Hopton |
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