ALVERTHORPE, a chapelry in the parish of
WAKEFIELD, lower division of the wapentake of AGBRIGG,
West riding of the county of YORK, If mile
(W. N. W.) from Wakefield, containing, with the township
of Thornes, 4448 inhabitants. A new chapel, in
the later style of English architecture, containing one
thousand five hundred and ninety sittings, of which
eight hundred and thirty-two are free, was completed
in 1825, at the expense of £7828, defrayed by a grant
from the parliamentary commissioners. Here are three
almshouses.