Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Woolley

Woolley, township and vil. with ry. sta., Roystone par., West-Riding Yorkshire - township, 2587 ac., pop. 600; vil., 5½ miles S. of Wakefield; P.O.; has an endowed school.


(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: Yorkshire Ancient County
Place: Woolley

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