Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HAIGH

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.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Darton AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Haigh

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