Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DALTON (South), or Dalton-Holme

DALTON (South), or Dalton-Holme, a parish in Beverley district, E. R. Yorkshire; 4¼ miles W by N of Arram r. station, and 6 ½ NW of Beverley. It has a post office, of the name of South Dalton, under Beverley. Acres, 1, 730. Real property, £2, 275. Pop., 338. Houses, 52. The property is divided among a few. Dalton Hall is the seat of Lord Hotham. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £462.* Patron, Lord Hotham. The church was built in 1861, at a cost of about £20, 000; is cruciform, and in the early second-pointed style; and has a western tower and spire, elaborately decorated, and 200 feet high.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Dalton Holme CP       South Dalton CP/AP       Beverley RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: DALTON     |     DALTON HOLME     |     DALTON SOUTH     |     DALTON SOUTH OR DALTON HOLME     |     SOUTH DALTON
Place: South Dalton

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