Parlington is a township adjoining Aberford, and has a population of 213; rateable value £1,922; the area is 1,731 acres. Here are beds of coal worked by the owners of Garforth colliery. Coal was worked here by the Gascoigne family during the reign of Charles the 2nd. Parlington Hall, the seat of Col. F. C. T. Gascoigne J.P., is a mansion, built of stone quarried on the estate, and stands in a beautiful deer park of about 300 acres; in the woods and about one mile south-west from the mansion is an artificial lake of 5 acres. Col. Gascoigne is lord of the manor and sole landowner.