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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.
GRINDLETON, a village and a township in Mitton parish, and a chapelry partly also in Sawley parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the river Ribble and the binndary with Lancashire, 1¾ mile N of Chatburu r. station, and 3 NNE of Clitheroe. The township includes the village, and comprises 3, 733 acres. Real property, £4, 569. Pop. in 1851, 826; in 1861, 666. house, 141. The decrease of pop. was caused by decline of employment in hand loom weaving. The chapelry was constituted in 1844; and its post town is Clitheroe, under Blackburn. Pop., 920. house, 183. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £100.* Patron, the Vicar of Mitton. The church is old and plain; and has a low square tower. There are a national school, alms houses for 84 widows, and other charities £29.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a township" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Grindleton |
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