Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HORBURY-BRIDGE

HORBURY-BRIDGE, a village in the Horbury and Shitlington sections of Wakefield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Calder and Hebble navigation, near Horbury village. It has a temporary church, erected shortly before 1866, and several extensive coal wharves.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wakefield CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Horbury Bridge

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