Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Birkenshaw

Birkenshaw, eccl. dist. and hamlet with ry. sta., Birstall par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 4½ miles SE. of Bradford, pop. 4136; P.O., T.O.; adjacent to coal and ironstone mines.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ecclesiastical district and hamlet with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Birkenshaw CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Birkenshaw

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