Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EARBY

EARBY, a township in Thornton-in-Craven parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Colne branch of the North Midland railway, 5½ miles SW of Skipton. It has a station on the railway, a cotton mill, and Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Thornton in Craven AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Earby

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