TONG, a chapelry in the parish of BIRSTALL, wapentake of MORLEY, West riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Bradford, containing 1893 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £450 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of John Plumbe, Esq. The manufacture of woollen cloth, worsted, rope, and twine, is here carried on. Eight poor children are instructed for £6 a year, bequeathed, in 1739, by Sir George Tempest, who erected the school-house.