ECCLESFIELD, township, Wortley rural district, Penistone parliamentary division, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 5 m. N. of Sheffield on the L.M.S. and L.N.E. railways. Pop. (1921), 22,944. The church of St. Mary is Perpendicular, with a cen tral tower. It contains excellent woodwork, and formerly bore the familiar title of the "Minster of the Moors." Ecclesfield was the seat of a Benedictine priory, which passed to the Carthusians in the 14th century. Cutlery and tools are largely manufactured, and there are coal-mines, paper-mills, and iron and fire-clay works.