Glass Houghton, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Glass-Houghton, a township in Castleford parish, W.R. Yorkshire. It lies 2 miles from Pontefract and 1 mile .from Castleford station on the L. & Y.R.; also about 1½ from Castleford on the N.E.R. and G.N.R. It has a pos½ office under Castleford (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Castleford. Area, 1079 acres; population, 1477. There is a colliery, and the township is noted for its sand and limestone. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, also Church of England mission-room.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Glass Houghton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: