Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Birstall

Birstall.-- par. and town with ry. sta., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 7 miles SW. of Leeds, 13,976 ac., pop. 62,781; town, pop. 6766; worsted and cotton mfrs.; coal and ironstone mines; birthplace of Dr Priestley (1733-1804).


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

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

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