WOOLLEY, a chapelry in the parish of ROYSTON,
wapentake of STAINCROSS, West riding of the county
of YORK, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Barnesley, containing,
with the township of Emley, 482 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of York, endowed with £15 per annum and
£200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of W. Wentworth, Esq. Sixteen poor
children are instructed for £11.11. a year, arising from
the rent of certain land bequeathed by Nicholas Burley,
with a trifling annuity from the parish fund.