Other current and historical names
Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Sowerby within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Sowerby, town and township, Halifax par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 4 miles SW. of Halifax - township (containing parts of Sowerby Bridge and Luddendenfoot towns), 6894 ac., pop. 9462; town, pop. 6179. Sowerby is a local government dist., and has cotton and woollen mfrs.
A village in Morley hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.