IDLE, a chapelry in the parish of CALVERLEY, wapentake
of MORLEY, West riding of the county of YORK,
4 miles (N. N. E.) from Bradford, containing 4666 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, endowed with £250 private
benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of
Calverley. A chapel is in progress of erection, according
to the provisions of the act of parliament for building
additional churches. There are places of worship for
Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyan Methodists. An
academy for the education of students preparing for
the ministry, in connexion with the Independents, was
founded here in 1800, and subsequently endowed with
£150 per annum, by Edward Hanson, Esq., of Clap:
ton in Middlesex, a native of this county; it is additionally
supported by voluntary contributions.