BRETTON (WEST), a chapelry partly in the parish of GREAT-SANDALL, lower division of the wapentake of AGBRIGG, but chiefly in the parish of SILKSTONE, wapentake of STAINCROSS, West riding of the county of YORK, 6 miles (N. W. by N.) from Barnesley, containing'518 inhabitants. The chapel is dependent on the church at Silkstone.