In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Owlerton like this:
OWLERTON, a village partly in Ecclesfield township and parish, and partly in Nether Hallam township, Sheffield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near the river Don and the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 2 miles N W of Sheffield. It has a post-office under Sheffield, steel-works, anvil and vice manufactories, stone quarries, breweries, a paper mill, a Wesleyan chapel, a Roman Catholic chapel, and a national and infant school.
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Owlerton through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Owlerton, in Sheffield and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24875
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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