Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LUDDENDENFOOT

LUDDENDENFOOT, a village in Luddenden chapelry, Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Calder, adjacent to the Lancashire and Yorkshire railwvay, 3 ½ miles W by S of Halifax. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Manchester. A railway 2 miles long, to be called the Luddenden Valley railway, was authorized in 1865 to be constructed from the Lancashire and Yorkshire at Luddendenfoot to Little Holme House.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Halifax AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Luddenden Foot

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