Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BIRDWELL

BIRDWELL, a hamlet in Worsbrough township, Darfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near the Sheffield and Doncaster railway, 4 miles SSE of Barnesley. It has a post office under Barnesley, and a station, jointly with Hoyland, on the railway.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Darfield Tn/CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Birdwell

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