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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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RASTRICK, a township-chapelry and a sub-district, in Halifax parish and district, W. R. Yorkshire. The chapelry lies on the river Calder, and on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 3½ miles N of Huddersfield; and has a station jointly with Brighouse on the railway, and a post-office‡ under Brighouse. Acres, 1, 290. Real property, £10, 140; of which £200 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 3, 917; in 1861, 4, 516. Houses, 1,005. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to W.Thornhill, Esq. Rastrick House, Toot-hill, Woodhouse, and Boothroyd are chief residences. There are woollen mills, a cotton factory, and stonequarries. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300.* Patron, the Vicar of Halifax. The church was built in 1790, and is in the Grecianstyle. There are a handsome Independent chapel, a Quakers chapel, an endowed school with £65 a year, and charites £16.—The sub-district contains also Fixbytownship, and comprises 2, 180 acres. Pop., 4, 904. Houses, 1,080.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township-chapelry and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Rastrick CP/Ch Halifax RegD/PLU Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Rastrick |
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