A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
WOMERSLEY, a township in Pontefract district, and a parish partly also in Hemsworth district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on a branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 5½ miles ESE of Pontefract; and has a post-office under Pontefract, and a r. station. Acres, 3,850. Real property, £3,766; of which £170 are in quarries. Pop., 445. Houses, 84. The parish includes three other townships, and comprises 7,780 acres. Pop., 996. Houses, 201. W. Hall is the seat of Lord Hawke. Wood Hall was formerly moated. Limestone is quarried and calcined. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £258. Patrons, Trustees of Lord Hawke. The church is early English, and was restored in 1868. There is a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Hemsworth RegD/PLU Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Womersley |
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