Place:


Apperley Bridge  West Riding

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Apperley Bridge like this:

APPERLEY-BRIDGE, a village in the townships of Calverley-with-Farsley and Eccleshill, parish of Calverley, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Aire, the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and the Leeds and Colne railway, 7¾ miles WNW of Leeds. It has a station on the railway, a post office under Leeds, and a large school of the sons of Methodist ministers; and it commands a fine view.

Additional information about this locality is available for Eccleshill

Apperley Bridge through time

Apperley Bridge is now part of Bradford district. Click here for graphs and data of how Bradford has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Apperley Bridge itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Apperley Bridge, in Bradford and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25405

Date accessed: 23rd April 2024


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