Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GLUSBURN

GLUSBURN, a township in Kildwick parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Aire, near the Leeds and Liverpool canal, 4 miles S of Skipton. It contains the village of Crosshills. Acres, 1, 516. Real property, £5, 133; of which £730 are in mines. Pop., 1, 475. Houses, 306. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Glusburn CP/Tn       Kildwick AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Glusburn

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