Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Longwood

Longwood, township and ry. sta., Huddersfield par., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on SW. side and partly in bor. of Huddersfield, 1334 ac. (21 water), pop. 4661; P.O., T.O., and P.O. at Longwood Edge; the reservoirs of the Huddersfield waterworks are here. Longwood is a local government district.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Huddersfield CP/AP       Longwood CP/Ch       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Longwood

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