CROSSLAND (NORTH-and-SOUTH), a chapelry
in the parish of ALMONDBURY, upper division of the
wapentake of AGBRIGG, West riding of the county of
YORK, 3f miles (S. W.) from Huddersfield, containing
1583 inhabitants. The chapel was lately erected at the
expense of £2321. 4.. 1., granted by the commissioners
under the act passed in the 58th of George III., for
building additional churches, and contains three hundred
and twenty-two free sittings. The manufacture of
woollen cloth is extensively carried on here; and there
is a scribbling-mill in the neighbourhood. A rentcharge
of A 3 was given by Godfrey Beamont towards
the support of a school; and in 1749, Sir John Lester
Kaye, Bart., gave land for the erection of a schoolroom,
which has since been rebuilt.