Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kirkburton

Kirkburton, manufacturing town, par., and township, with ry. sta., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 6¼m. SE. of Huddersfield--par., 6931 ac., pop. 18,817; town and township, 1286 ac., pop. 3407; P.O., T.O.; has mfrs. of woollen and fancy goods, and coal and iron mines.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "manufacturing town, parish, and township, with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Kirkburton AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Kirkburton

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