Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Fairburn

Fairburn, township and vil., Ledsham par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Aire, 4½ miles NE. of Pontefract, 1428 ac., pop. 509; P.O., called Fairnburn.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Fairburn Ch/CP/Tn       Ledsham CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: FAIRBURN     |     FAIRNBURN
Place: Fairburn

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