Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Saddleworth

Saddleworth, township and manufacturing vil. with ry. sta., Rochdale par., West-Riding Yorkshire - township, 18,797 ac., pop. 22,299; the vil. is 12 miles SW. of Huddersfield by rail, and, in conjunction with numerous other villages in the township, carries on mfrs. of woollen cloth, kerseymeres, and shawls.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Rochdale CP/AP       Saddleworth Ch/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Saddleworth

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