Featherstone, a township in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 2½ miles S. by W. of Pontefract. In a riot here arising out of a coal strike (1893) the military were called out, and two men were killed and six wounded—the subject of a royal commission. Pop. 7528.
Featherstone
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 571
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