Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOUTHCOATES

SOUTHCOATES, a township, with a r. station, in Drypool parish, E. R. Yorkshire; on the Hulland Holderness railway, in the E vicinity of Hull. Acres, 1,050. Real property, £9,888; of which £18 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 1,673; in 1861, 2,804. Houses, 580. The increase of pop. arose from the opening of two large iron-ship-building establishments.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township, with a r station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Drypool CP/PA       Southcoates CP/Tn       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Southcoates

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