Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Whitley, Upper

Whitley, Upper, township, Kirkheaton par., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 6 miles E. of Huddersfield, 2053 ac., pop. 909; has coal mines; contains Whitley Beaumont, seat. Upper Whitley is a local government district.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kirkheaton AP/CP       Whitley Upper CP/Tn       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: UPPER WHITLEY     |     WHITLEY     |     WHITLEY UPPER
Place: Whitley Upper

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