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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Birdwell like this:
BIRDWELL, a hamlet in Worsbrough township, Darfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near the Sheffield and Doncaster railway, 4 miles SSE of Barnesley. It has a post office under Barnesley, and a station, jointly with Hoyland, on the railway.
Birdwell is now part of BARNSLEY District. Click here for graphs and data of how BARNSLEY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Birdwell itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Birdwell, in Barnsley and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24822
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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