Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Bowling

Bowling, township and vil. with ry. sta., in par. and 1 mile S. of Bradford, N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 1561 ac., pop. 28,738; has extensive coal and iron mines, and mfrs. of cloth.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bowling CP/Tn       Bradford AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Bowling

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