ARDSLEY, a township in that part of the parish
of DAREFIELD which is in the wapentake of STAINCROSS,
West riding of the county of YORK, 2J miles
(E. by S.) from Barnesley, containing 992 inhabitants.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
Richard Micklethwaite, in 1745, gave land for the instruction
of five children, to which bequest an addition
of £50 was made by John Micklethwaite, in 1752,
ARDSLEY (EAST), a parish in the lower division
of the wapentake of AGBRIGG, West riding of the
county of YORK, 3 miles (N. W. by N.) from Wakefield,
containing 832 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York,
endowed with £ 10 per annum private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Earl,
of Cardigan. The neighbourhood abounds with coal,
and some of the mines have been worked upwards of a
century. Here is a small endowed free school.