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Allerton, Chapel, in the parish and borough of Leeds, lower division of Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract; 2 ¾ miles from Leeds, 5 ¼ from Harewood, 9 from Wetherby, 11 from Otley. – Pop. 1,678. The Church is a perpetual curacy. Patron, the Vicar of Leeds.

Robert Parker, of Browsholme, says Thoresby, built an hospital here for ten widows, to whom he has given £50 per annum, for nearly twenty years past, and designed to augment the endowment at his death very considerably. Whether this design was put into execution or not, we have not learned.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire By Thomas Langdale. Second Edition. Printed and Sold by J. Langdale; and sold by T. Langdale, Ripon. 1822.