KILDWICK, a parish in the eastern division of the
wapentake of STAINCLIFFE-AND-EWCROSS, West riding
of the county of YORK, comprising the chapelry of
Silsden, and the townships of Bradley's Both, Cowling,
Farnhill with Cononley, Glusburn, Kildwick, Stceton
with Easburn, Stirton with Thorlby, and Sutton, and
containing 8605 inhabitants, of which number, 175 are
in the township of Kildwick, 4 miles (S.S.E.) from
Skipton. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of York, rated in the
king's books at £10. 8. 1., endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford.
The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is principally in
the later style of English architecture.