Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FAIRBURN

FAIRBURN, a township in Ledsham parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Aire and the North Midland railway, 2½ miles NNW of Ferrybridge. Acres, 1, 386. Real property, £2, 826; of which £83 are in quarries. Pop., 458. Houses, 112. There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists.


(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: Fairburn Ch/CP/Tn       Ledsham CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Fairburn

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