Knottingley, Wakefield

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Knottingley is a town in Wakefield

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Knottingley within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Knottingley in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Knottingley, township with ry. sta., Pontefract par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Aire, 2½ miles NE. and within the parliamentary limits of Pontefract, 1481 ac., pop. 5069; P.O., T.O.; has large breweries, earthenware mfrs., maltmgs, roperies, tar works, &c.

Knottingley in the Domesday Book

A village in Osgodcross hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

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