A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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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.
LANGFIELD, a township in Heptonstall chapelry, Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near the river Calder, the Rochdale canal, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 1 mile SE of Todmorden, and 10 W by S of of Halifax. Acres, 5,920. Real property, £15,484. Pop. in 1851,3,729; in 1861,4,391. Houses, 890. Much of the land is moor and mountain. Mankinholes, Kilnhurst, Lower Stoodley, and Sandholme are chief residences. There are cotton spinning mills, cotton factories, sizing manufactories, and stone quarries. A monument, in commemoration of the exploits of the Duke of Wellington, was erected on Stoodley hill soon after the peace of 1815; was blown down on the eve of the commencement of the Crimean war; and has been re-erected, by subscription, at a cost of £800. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
(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: | Halifax AP/CP Langfield CP/Tn West Riding Riding Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Langfield |
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