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.
LINTHWAITE, a township and a chapelry in Almondbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river. Colne and the Manchester canal, near Golcar r. station, 4 miles SW of Huddersfield; carries on largely the woollen manufacture; and has a post office under Huddersfield. Acres, 1,334. Pop. in 1851,3,802; in 1861, 4,300. Houses, 850. The property is much subdivided. Good building-stone is quarried.—The chapelry was constituted in 1842, and is less extensive than the township. Pop. in 1861,3,144. Houses, 623. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. * Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury. The church was built in 1828, at a cost of £3,000; and is a neat edifice with tower and spire. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Free Methodists, and national and Wesleyan schools.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Almondbury AP/CP Linthwaite CP/Ch Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Linthwaite |
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