HONLEY, a chapelry in the parish of ALMONDBURY,
upper division of the wapentake of AGBRIGG,
West riding of the county of YORK, 3 miles (S. by W.)
from .Huddersfield, containing 3501 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry, and
diocese of York, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the
Vicar of Almondbury. There are places of worship for
Independents and Wesleyan Methodists; also a National
school erected by subscription in 1816.