RAWDEN, or RAWDON, a chapelry in the parish
of GUISLEY, upper division of the wapentake of SKYRACK,
West riding of the county of YORK, 7 miles
(N. E. by N.) from Bradford, containing 1759 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, endowed with £400 private benefaction,
£400 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Lord of the Manor.
The chapel, erected in 1721, has lately received an
addition of three hundred and fifty sittings, of which
one hundred and seventy-five are free, the Incorporated
Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels
having granted £500 towards defraying the expense.
There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyan
Methodists; the latter have a seminary at Woodhouse
Grove. The manufacture of woollen goods is carried
on to a considerable extent. A school-house was built,
in 1746, by Thomas Layton, Esq., at which period
£200, raised by subscription for its support, was invested
in land, now producing an annual income of
£10, which is paid to a master for teaching sixteen
children. Rawdon gives the inferior title of baron to
the Marquis of Hastings.