Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wilsden

Wilsden, township and eccl. dist. with ry. sta., Bradford par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles NW. of Bradford - township, 2638 ac., pop. 2966; eccl. dist. (Wilsden cum Allerton), pop. 6201; P.O.; the township forms a local government dist. Worsted spinning and the mfr. of stuffs are carried on.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and ecclesiastical district"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wilsden CP/Tn       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Wilsden

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