Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LOTHERSDALE

LOTHERSDALE, a hamlet in Carlton parish, and a chapelry partly also in Kildwick parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet lies 5 miles SW of Skipton r. station and has a post office under Leeds. The chapelry was con stituted in 1 840. Pop. in 1861,819. Houses, 170. Pop. of the Carlton portion, 626. Houses, 130. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Carlton. The church was built in 1838. There is a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kildwick AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Lothersdale

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