BRAMLEY, a chapelry in the parish of ST-PETER,
within the liberty of LEEDS, West riding
of the county of YORK, 4 miles (W.N.W.) from Leeds,
containing 4921 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 Vicar
of Leeds. There are places of worship for Particular
Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. Many of the inhabitants
are engaged in the clothing business; and there
are spacious and celebrated stone and slate quarries
within the chapelry. Land producing an average rental
of £21 was assigned, on the enclosure of the common,
for the education of sixteen boys in the school at Leeds:
having become a subject of dispute in Chancery, the
income has, for the last few years, been applied in payment
of the costs, but will soon be made available to
the benefit of the institution. Another allotment was
set apart, producing & 6 per annum, for the instruction
of six female children.