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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Fulstone like this:
FOOLSTONE, or Fulstone, a township in Kirkburton parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 5½ miles SSE of Huddersfield. It includes part of Newmill village and part of Scholes hamlet. Acres, 1, 200. Real property, £5, 273; of which £323 are in mines and £74 in quarries. Pop., 2, 414. Houses, 455. See Newmill.
Fulstone is now part of KIRKLEES District. Click here for graphs and data of how KIRKLEES has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Fulstone itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Fulstone, in Kirklees and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1218
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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