HEPTONSTALL, a chapelry in the parish of HALIFAX
wapentake of MORLEY, West riding of the county
of YORK, 8 miles (W. by N.) from Halifax, containing
4543 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with
£800 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, .and
£ 1700 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Vicar of Halifax. The chapel, dedicated to St. Thomas a
Becket, has recently been erected, and contains one
thousand and thirty- one sittings, of which seven hundred
and thirty-three are free, and towards defraying the
expense of which the Incorporated Society for enlarging
churches contributed £1000. A grammar school was
founded and endowed in 1642, by the Rev. Charles
Greenwood, the income of which is about £77 per annum;
from sixty to seventy children are instructed on
moderate terms, seventeen of whom are taught the classics
gratuitously; the usher receives £5. 11. 4. per annum,
bequeathed by Abraham Wall in 1638, for teaching
poor children to read and write. Here are extensive
cotton manufactories.