Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HIPSWELL

HIPSWELL, a township and a chapelry in Richmond district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on Rysdale beck, near its influx to the Swale, and near the Richmond railway, 2 miles SE of Richmond; and is in the parish of Catterick. Acres, 2, 785. Real property, £2, 768. Pop., 260. Houses, 53. Hipswell Lodge is a chief residence. The chapelry includes also the townships of Calbourn and Scotton, and the extra-parochial tract of St. Martin; and its post town is Richmond, Yorkshire. Pop., 566. Houses, 113. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Catterick. The church is modern. There are a village school and charities £24. A Benedictine priory was founded here about the year 1100, and was valued, at the dissolution, at £43 16s. 8d. per annum.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Richmond RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Hipswell

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