Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SCARCLIFF

SCARCLIFF, a parish, with a village, in the district of Mansfield and county of Derby; 6 miles N N W of Mansfield r. station. Post-town, Mansfield. Acres, 3, 674. Real property, £3, 790. Pop., 548. Houses, 126. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £70. Patron, Earl Bathurst. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower of 1842. There are an endowed school, and charities £30.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Scarcliffe CP/AP       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Scarcliffe

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