In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Allerton Bywater like this:
ALLERTON-BYWATER, a chapelry in Kippax parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Aire navigation, 5 miles NNW of Pontefract. Acres, 870. Real property, £5,271,-of which £3,000 are in mines. Pop., 704. The living is a vicarage. The church was built in 1866.
Allerton Bywater through time
Allerton Bywater is now part of Leeds district. Click here for graphs and data of how Leeds has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Allerton Bywater itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Allerton Bywater, in Leeds and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11148
Date accessed: 18th April 2024
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