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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Haigh like this:
HAIGH, a hamlet in Kexborough township, Darton parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Wakefield and Barnesley railway, 4½ miles NW of Barnesley. It has a station on the railway and a New Connexion Methodist chapel. Acres, 1, 650. Pop., 577. Birthwaite Hall here is a handsome Gothic edifice; and was the seat of the ancestors of Sir Francis Burdett.
Haigh is now part of WAKEFIELD District. Click here for graphs and data of how WAKEFIELD has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Haigh itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Haigh, in Wakefield and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25465
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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