A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
ALLERTON, a township in Bradford parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 3½ miles WNW of Bradford. It has a post office under Bradford; and it includes the villages of Allerton-Lanes, Fairweather, Green, Upper Green, Lee, Moor-House-Moor, Pikely, Harrop-Edge, and Crosky Hall. Acres, 1,970. Real property, with Wilsden, £14,536,-of which £1,206 are in quarries, and £762 in mines. Pop., 2,014. Houses, 433. Most of the inhabitants are employed in manufactories and collieries. A chapelry for Wilsden-with-Allerton was constituted in 1828; and there are three dissenting chapels.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Allerton CP/Tn Bradford AP/CP Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Allerton |
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