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