Description
Auckley or Awkley, a township and a village in the parish of Finningley, partly in Notts, and partly in W. R. Yorkshire, 2 miles from Finningley railway station, and 5 ESE of Don-caster. Acreage, 2087; population, 253. It has a post office under Doncaster, which is the money order and telegraph office. There is a chapel of ease attached to the church at Finningley, and a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
