Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARTON-LE-STREET

BARTON-LE-STREET, a township and a parish in Malton district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the Thirsk and Driffield railway, and on the line of a Roman road, under the Cleveland Moors, 6 miles WNW of Malton; and it has a station on the railway, and a post office under Malton. Acres, 1,644. Real property, £1,419. Pop., 184. Houses, 37. The parish includes also the townships of Butterwick and Coneysthorpe. Acres, 3,476. Real property, £3,395. Pop., 454. Houses, 93. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, united with the curacy of Butterwick, in the diocese of York. Value, £450.* Patron, H.Meynell Ingram, Esq. The church has two elaborately sculptured Norman doorways, and is good. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Barton le Street AP/CP/Tn       Malton RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Barton le Street

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