Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FARNHILL

FARNHILL, a township in Kildwick parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Liverpool canal, 3½ miles SSE of Skipton. Acres, 583. Real property, £8, 604; of which £4, 053 are in mines. Pop., 464. Houses, 102. The mines are lead ones, on Glusburn moor.


(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: Farnhill CP/Tn       Kildwick AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Farnhill

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