Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Sowerby

Sowerby, town and township, Halifax par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 4 miles SW. of Halifax - township (containing parts of Sowerby Bridge and Luddendenfoot towns), 6894 ac., pop. 9462; town, pop. 6179. Sowerby is a local government dist., and has cotton 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       Sowerby CP/Tn       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Sowerby

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