A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
LEIGHTON, a township-chapelry in Worthin parish, Montgomery; on Offa's dyke and the river Severn, adjacent to the Chester and Llanidloes railway, under Long mountain, near the boundary with Salop, 1½ mile SSE of Welshpool. Post town, Welshpool. Acres, 1,870. Real property, £4,199. Pop. in 1851,297; in 1861,431. Houses, 83. The increase of pop. arose from the temporary presence of labourers on a gentleman's estate. Leighton is a chief residence. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the p. curacy of Trelystan or Wolston-Mynd, in the diocese of Hereford.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Worthen CP/AP Montgomeryshire AncC |
| Place: | Leighton |
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