Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FERRIBY

FERRIBY, a railway station and a sub-district in E. R. Yorkshire. The station is on the Hull and Selby railway, at North Ferriby, 7½ miles W by S of Hull. The sub-district is in Sculcoates district, and contains North Ferriby and Welton parishes, and Wauldby township. Acres, 10, 595. Pop., 1,858. Houses, 389.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway station and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Sculcoates RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: North Ferriby

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