Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Honley

Honley, township and vil. with ry. sta., Almondbury par., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 3½ miles S. of Huddersfield, 2435 ac., pop. 5070; P.O., T.O.; has extensive woollen mills.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Almondbury AP/CP       Honley CP/Ch       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Honley

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