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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Churwell like this:
CHURWELL, a township in Batley parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Dewsbury railway, 3 miles SSW of Leeds. It has a station on the railway, a post office under Leeds, and two Methodist chapels. Acres, 488. Real property, £4, 424; of which £1, 174 are in mines. Pop., 1, 564. Houses, 319.
Churwell is now part of LEEDS District. Click here for graphs and data of how LEEDS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Churwell itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Churwell, in Leeds and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12001
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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