Fairburn, West Riding

Description
Fairburn, a village and a township in Led&ham parish, W. R. Yorkshire, on the river Aire, and the Great North Road, 1 mile from Burton Salmon station on the N.E.R. There is a post office under South Milford (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Brotherton. Acreage, 1428; popu- i lation, 647. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, , and a chapel of ease to Ledsham. i

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5