Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OXSPRING

OXSPRING, a village and a township in Penistone parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 1½ mile E of Penistone, and is small. The township contains also the hamlets of Clays-Green, Roughbirchworth and Storrs. Acres, 530. Real property, £1, 659. Pop., 346. Houses, 64. The manor belongs to G. W. B. Bosville, Esq There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Oxspring Tn/CP       Penistone AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Oxspring

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