Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Marsden

Marsden, town with ry. sta., Almondbury and Huddersfield pars., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Colne, 7 miles SW. of Huddersfield, pop. 3319; P.O., T.O.; has woollen, cotton, and silk factories; in vicinity of Marsden is a railway tunnel 3 miles 61 yards long.


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

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Feature Description: "town with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Marsden

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