CROSSLAND (South), a hamlet, a township, and a chapelry in Almondbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet lies on the river Colne, 1½ mile SW of Berry-Brow r. station, and 3¼ SSW of Huddersfield. The township includes also Mag-lordship. Acres, 1, 560. Pop., 2, 794. Houses, 582. Many of the inhabitants are woollen weavers. The chapelry is of less extent than the township; and was constituted in 1842. Post town, Berry Brow, under Huddersfield. Rated property, £5, 500. Pop., 2, 259. Houses, 462. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury. The church is tolerable; and there are a Methodist chapel, and charities £15.

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