Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GRINDLETON

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, 14


(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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