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LEAKE, a township in Northallerton district, and a parish partly also in Thirsk district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies 4½ miles NE of Otterington r. station, and 5½ SE of Northallerton; and anciently contained a flourishing town, which was destroyed about the time of the Conquest. Acres, 210. Real property, £655. Pop., 17. House, 1.—The parish contains also the township of Borrowby, which has a post office under Thirsk; and contains likewise the chapelry of Nether Silton, and the townships of Gueldable, Crosby, Landmoth-with-Catto, and Knayton-with-Brawith. Acres, 7, 520. Real property, £9, 968. Pop., 1, 092. Houses, 261. The property is divided among a few. An ancient mansion, the quondam seat of the Danby family, is now a farm-house. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Nether Silton, in the diocese of York. Value, £310. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower. Several stone coffins, supposed to have been Saxon or Danish, have been exhumed in the churchyard. Charities, £15.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Thirsk RegD/PLU Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Leake |
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