STANNINGLEY, a chapelry, with a village, in Leeds and Calverley parishes, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Halifax railway, 5 miles W of Leeds. It has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post-office‡ under Leeds. Pop., 2,600. There are woollen factories, machine-works, an iron-foundry, and quarries. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. The church was built in 1841, and is in the Norman style. A second church was built in 1856, and is in the early English style. There are five dissenting places of worship and a national school.

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