WORTLEY, a chapelry in the parish of ST-PETER'S,
town and liberty of LEEDS, West riding of the county
of YORK, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Leeds, containing
3179 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £400
private benefaction, and £2000 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of five Trustees. The chapel is
a neat modern structure. There are places of worship
for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. The manufacture
of woollen cloth is extensively carried on
here. In the neighbourhood coarse earthenware and
tobacco pipes are made from clay obtained upon the
spot. Langdale Sunderland, in 1677, conveyed certain
houses and land, now producing about £40 a year, in
Support of a free school for all the poor children of the
chapelry.