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MILNSBRIDGE, a chapelry partly in Longwood township, chiefly in Linthwaite township, Almondbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Huddersfield, Sheffield and Holmfirth railway, in the southern vicinity of Huddersfield. It was constituted in 1846; and its Post town is Huddersfield. The acreage is returned with the parish. Rated property, £7,667. Pop., 2,903. Houses, 631. The property is divided among a few. The living isis a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury. The church has a bell turret. There are a Baptist chapel, a mechanics' institution, and a national school.
(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: | Almondbury Parish Yorkshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Milnsbridge |
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