Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CONONLEY

CONONLEY, a township in Kildwick parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Aire, the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and the North Midland railway, 3 miles S by E of Skipton. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Leeds; and it forms a curacy with Kildwick. Acres, 1, 431. Pop., 905. Houses, 220. A number of the inhabitants are employed in worsted mills.


(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: Cononley CP/Tn       Kildwick AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Cononley

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