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APPERLEY-BRIDGE, a village in the townships of Calverley-with-Farsley and Eccleshill, parish of Calverley, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Aire, the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and the Leeds and Colne railway, 7¾ miles WNW of Leeds. It has a station on the railway, a post office under Leeds, and a large school of the sons of Methodist ministers; and it commands a fine view.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Yorkshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Apperley Bridge |
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