LONGWOOD, a chapelry in the parish of HUDDERSFIELD,
upper division of the wapentake of AGBRIGG,
West riding of the county of YORK, 2 miles
(W.). from Huddersfield, containing 1942 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, endowed with £800 royal bounty,
and £2400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Vicar of Huddersfield. A free school was
founded and endowed with lands, in 1731, by William
Walker, for the education of forty children of both
sexes, to be elected from Longwood, Golcar, and Milnes
Bridge; the annual income is £97. 11., and the master
occupies the school-house, garden, and croft.