Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OUTWOOD

OUTWOOD, a chapelry in Wakefield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the Wakefield and Ardsley-Junction line of the Great Northern railway, 3½ miles N by W of Wakefield. It has a station, jointly with Loft-house, on the railway; it was constituted in 1861; and its post town is Wakefield. Pop., 2, 335. Houses, 465. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Stanley.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wakefield CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Outwood

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