Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Withnell

Withnell, township and ry. sta., Ley land par., N. Lancashire, 5 miles SW. of Blackburn, 3628 ac., pop. 2106; P.O.; has cotton mills and bleach works, and the Withnell Fold paperworks.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place: Withnell

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