Place:


Wentbridge  West Riding

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wentbridge like this:

WENTBRIDGE, a hamlet in Badsworth, Kirk-Smeaton, and Darrington parishes, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Wente, 4½ miles SE by S of Pontefract. Pop., 123.

Additional information about this locality is available for Darrington

Wentbridge through time

Wentbridge is now part of Wakefield district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wakefield has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wentbridge itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wentbridge, in Wakefield and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26782

Date accessed: 06th November 2024


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