WIBSEY, a chapelry in the parish of BRADFORD,
wapentake of MORLEY, West riding of the county of
YORK, 2 miles (S.W.by S.) from Bradford, with which
the population is returned. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed
with £600 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and
£300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Vicar of Bradford. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy
Trinity, has lately received an addition of five hundred
sittings, of which three hundred are free, the Incorporated
Society for the enlargement of churches and
chapels having granted £250 towards defraying the
expense. The manufacture of worsted is extensively
carried on here.