BARNOLDWICK, a parish in the eastern division
of the wapentake of STAINCLIFFE-and-EWCROSS, West
riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships
of Barnoldwick, Brogden, Coates, and Salterforth, and
containing 2350 inhabitants, of which number, 1334
are in the township of Barnoldwick, 9 miles (W. S. W.)
from Skipton. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
peculiar jurisdiction of the Lord of the Manor, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, £ 1100 royal bounty, and
£1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
Sir J. L. Kaye, Bart. The church, dedicated to St.
Mary, stands on the verge of a deep glen, whence it
was formerly known by the name of Gill Kirk. There
are places of worship for Particular Baptists and Wesleyan
Methodists. A Cistercian monastery was founded
here in 1147, which was afterwards removed to Kirkstall,
owing to some dissension among the monks and
the inhabitants.