Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Milnrow

Milnrow, town and ry. sta., in par. and on SE. side of Rochdale, SE. Lancashire, 5264 ac., pop. 7013; P.O., T.O.; John Collier ("Tim Bobbin"), author of poems in the Lancashire dialect, was long schoolmaster.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "town and railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place: Milnrow

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