Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cleckheaton

Cleckheaton, town and township with ry. sta., Birstall par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 5½ miles SE. of Bradford and 187 miles NW. of London, 1755 ac., pop. 10,653; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 3 newspapers; the staple industries are textile fabrics and machine making.


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

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Feature Description: "town and township with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Cleckheaton

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