Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FOOLSTONE, or Fulstone

FOOLSTONE, or Fulstone, a township in Kirkburton parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 5½ miles SSE of Huddersfield. It includes part of Newmill village and part of Scholes hamlet. Acres, 1, 200. Real property, £5, 273; of which £323 are in mines and £74 in quarries. Pop., 2, 414. Houses, 455. See Newmill.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kirkburton AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: FOOLSTONE     |     FOOLSTONE OR FULSTONE     |     FULSTONE
Place: Fulstone

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