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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Horbury Bridge like this:
HORBURY-BRIDGE, a village in the Horbury and Shitlington sections of Wakefield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Calder and Hebble navigation, near Horbury village. It has a temporary church, erected shortly before 1866, and several extensive coal wharves.
Horbury Bridge is now part of WAKEFIELD District. Click here for graphs and data of how WAKEFIELD has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Horbury Bridge itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Horbury Bridge, in Wakefield and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25477
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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