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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Womersley like this:
WOMERSLEY, a township in Pontefract district, and a parish partly also in Hemsworth district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on a branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 5½ miles ESE of Pontefract; and has a post-office under Pontefract, and a r. station. Acres, 3,850. Real property, £3,766; of which £170 are in quarries. ...
Pop., 445. Houses, 84. The parish includes three other townships, and comprises 7,780 acres. Pop., 996. Houses, 201. W. Hall is the seat of Lord Hawke. Wood Hall was formerly moated. Limestone is quarried and calcined. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £258. Patrons, Trustees of Lord Hawke. The church is early English, and was restored in 1868. There is a national school.
Womersley is now part of NORTH YORKSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH YORKSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Womersley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Womersley, in North Yorkshire and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/14491
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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