Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Queensbury (or Queenshead)

Queensbury (or Queenshead), town with ry. sta., Bradford and Halifax pars., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 4 miles N. of Halifax, 1593 ac., pop. 6824; P.O., T.O.; has stone quarries and coal mines, and shares in the manufacturing industries of Halifax.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "town with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place names: QUEENSBURY     |     QUEENSBURY OR QUEENSHEAD     |     QUEENSHEAD
Place: Queensbury

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