Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BIERLEY

BIERLEY, a chapelry in North Bierley township, Bradford parish, W. R. Yorkshire. Pop. in 1851, about 3,000. Post Town, Bradford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £130.* Patron, Mr. Wilson. The church is good. See Bierley (North).


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bradford AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Bierley

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