PUDSEY, a chapelry in the parish of CALVERLEY,
wapentake of MORLEY, West riding of the county of
YORK, 4 miles (E.) from Bradford, containing 6229
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
peculiar jurisdiction of the manorial court of Crossley,
Bingley, and Pudsey, endowed with £ 200 private benefaction,
and £'200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Vicar of Calverley. The chapel is dedicated to
St. Lawrence. A new church, in the later style of
English architecture, was erected in 1823, under the
sanction of " His Majesty's Commissioners for building
churches j" the amount of contract, including incidental
expenses, was £13,362. 1. 10. There are places of worship
for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. The
manufacture of woollen cloth is here carried on to a
considerable extent. Jacob Simpson, in 1737., bequeathed
£100 for the relief of decayed housekeepers, and for
teaching poor children.