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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Soothill like this:
SOOTHILL, a township, which is also a sub-district, in Dewsbury parish and district, W. R. Yorkshire; around Batley r. station, and 1½ mile N of Dewsbury. It includes Hanging-Heaton, Earls-Heaton, Chidswell, Crickenley, and Shawcross hamlets. Acres, 2,393. Real property, £13,921; of which £1,750 are in mines, and £52 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 5,059; in 1861, 6,238. Houses, 1,290.
Soothill is now part of KIRKLEES District. Click here for graphs and data of how KIRKLEES has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Soothill itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Soothill, in Kirklees and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1281
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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