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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Portsmouth like this:
PORTSMOUTH, a village in Cliviger township, Whalley parish, Lancashire; on the Burnley and Todmorden railway, near the boundary with Yorkshire, 3 miles N W of Tormorden. It has a station with telegraph on the railway, several cotton mills, bobbin-works, brick-works, and quarries. Portsmouth House is the seat of J. Green, Esq.
Portsmouth is now part of CALDERDALE District. Click here for graphs and data of how CALDERDALE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Portsmouth itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Portsmouth, in Calderdale and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24681
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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