Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Brighouse

Brighouse, town with ry. sta., Halifax par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 6 miles N. of Huddersfield, pop. 7965; P.O., T.O., 3 Banks, 2 newspapers; has woollen and worsted mfrs.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "town with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Halifax AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Brighouse

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