Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wyresdale (or Wyersdale), Over

Wyresdale (or Wyersdale), Over, township, Lancaster par., N. Lancashire, on river Wyre, 7 m. SE. of Lancaster, 17,319 ac., pop. 313; has an endowed school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lancaster AP/Tn/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Over Wyresdale

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