Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Southowram

Southowram, town and township, Halifax par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire - township (partly in bor. of Halifax), 2546 ac., pop. 8813; town, pop. 3036; P.O., T.O.; is a local government district, and carries on stone quarrying, coal mining, and woollen mfrs.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "town and township"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Halifax AP/CP       Southowram CP/Tn       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Southowram

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