Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WOODHOUSE

WOODHOUSE, a village in Handsworth parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 1 mile W by S of W.-Junction r. station, and 4½ ESE of Sheffield. It has a post-office under Sheffield, three dissenting chapels, a national school, and saw-mills; and it does much business in connexion with neighbouring collieries.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Handsworth AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Woodhouse

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