Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Drighlington

Drighlington, township and vil. (ry. sta. Drighlington and Adwalton), Birstall par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles SE. of Bradford, 1136 ac., pop. 4214; has worsted spinning and coal mining.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Drighlington

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