Dalton & Moldgreen

Dalton & Moldgreen hamlets and a chapelry in Kirkheaton parish.

Moldgreen Christ Church

DALTON, a township, in the parish of Kirk-Heaton, union of Huddersfield, Upper division of the wapentake of Agbrigg, West Riding of Yorkshire; containing 3906 inhabitants.
This place forms the eastern suburb of the town of Huddersfield, from which it is separated by the river Colne, and has become the centre of a widely extended branch of commerce, consisting of all kinds of fancy goods for waistcoating, trowsers, gowns.
The township includes Mold-Green, Dalton-Green, Dalton-Fold, Bradley-Mills, and some other scattered hamlets, and comprises an area of 1242 acres. The tithes were commuted under an inclosure act obtained in 1799.