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HAIGH, a hamlet in Kexborough township, Darton parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Wakefield and Barnesley railway, 4½ miles NW of Barnesley. It has a station on the railway and a New Connexion Methodist chapel. Acres, 1, 650. Pop., 577. Birthwaite Hall here is a handsome Gothic edifice; and was the seat of the ancestors of Sir Francis Burdett.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Darton Parish Yorkshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Haigh |
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