Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BILTON-WITH-HARROGATE

BILTON-WITH-HARROGATE, a township and two chapelries in Knaresborough parish and district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the North Midland railway, 2 miles W of Knaresborough; and contains the Post Town of Harrogate. Acres, 4,800. Real property, £29,286. Pop., 4,563. Houses, 905. The two chapelries are Bilton and Harrogate. Bilton was constituted in 1828. Pop., 407. Houses, 91. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £154. Patron, W. Sheepshanks, Esq. A school has an endowed income of £30. Harrogate, town and chapelry, will be noticed in the article Harrogate.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and two chapelries"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bilton With Harrogate CP/Ch       Knaresborough AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Bilton

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