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OUTWOOD, a chapelry in Wakefield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the Wakefield and Ardsley-Junction line of the Great Northern railway, 3½ miles N by W of Wakefield. It has a station, jointly with Loft-house, on the railway; it was constituted in 1861; and its post town is Wakefield. Pop., 2, 335. Houses, 465. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Stanley.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Wakefield Parish Yorkshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Outwood |
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