A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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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.
BALDERSBY, a township and a chapelry in Topcliffe parish, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Swale and on the Leeds and Thirsk railway, 5 miles NE of Ripon. It has a station on the railway, of the name of Baldersby-Gate: and its Post Town is Topcliffe, under Thirsk. Acres, 1,752. Real property, £3,360. Pop., 333. Houses, 67. The chapelry is more extensive than the township. Pop. in 1851, 687. The property belongs to two. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £120.* Patron, Viscount Downe. The church is new.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Baldersby Tn/CP Topcliffe Tn/CP/AP Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Baldersby |
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