Lepton

Lepton hamlets and a chapelry in Kirkheaton parish.

Lepton St John the Evangelist

Lepton Parish Church

LEPTON, a township in Kirkheaton parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the York and Manchester railway, 4 miles E by S of Huddersfield.
It contains the post office of Fenay-Bridge, under Huddersfield; and the villages or hamlets of Great Lepton, Little Lepton, Cowms, Gawthorp, Highgate-Lane, Lascelles-Hall, Lidget, Rowley, and Waterloo.
Acres, 1,651. Real property, £5,403; of which £150 are in mines, and £9 in quarries. Pop. in 1851,3,592; in 1861,3,273. Houses, 737.
The woollen manufacture is largely carried on. Lepton had one of first Fireworks industries in the this county.
A national school was erected in 1860, at a cost of £1,300; and is used as a chapel of ease.
A Wesleyan chapel is at Cowms; a Primitive Methodist chapel, at Leptonfields; and mechanics' institutes at Leptonfields and Lascelles Hall