BRACEWELL, a parish in Skipton district, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the Liverpool and Leeds canal, 3 miles WNW of Earby r. station, and 9 WSW of Skipton. Post Town, Thornton, under Skipton. Acres, 1,920 Real property, £2,592. Pop., 140. Houses, 20. The property is divided among a few. an old house here was a retreat of Henry VI. Limestone is worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £123. Patron, J. T. Hopwood, Esq. The church is very good.

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