Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OAKENSHAW

OAKENSHAW, a hamlet in Birstall parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the North Midland railway, 4 miles S by E of Bradford. It has a station on the railway, and is divided between the chapelries of Cleckheaton and White-chapel. A factory was founded here in 1866, by the Oakenshaw Mill company.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Oakenshaw

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