Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for THORNES

THORNES, a chapelry in Wakefield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; ½ a mile S by W of Wakefield r. station. Post town, Wakefield. Pop., 1,798. Houses, 386. The property is subdivided; and there are several market gardens. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £160.* Patron, the Vicar of Wakefield. The church was built in 1830. There is a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wakefield CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Thornes

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