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OWLERTON, a village partly in Ecclesfield township and parish, and partly in Nether Hallam township, Sheffield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near the river Don and the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 2 miles N W of Sheffield. It has a post-office under Sheffield, steel-works, anvil and vice manufactories, stone quarries, breweries, a paper mill, a Wesleyan chapel, a Roman Catholic chapel, and a national and infant school.
(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: | Sheffield Parish Yorkshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Owlerton |
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