In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Manston like this:
MANSTON, a chapelry in Barwick-in-Elmet parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near the Leeds and Selby railway, 3¼ miles E by N of Leeds. It was constituted in 1849; and its Post town is Seacroft, under Leeds. Rated property, £2,080. Pop., 606. Houses, 131. The property is subdivided. The living is a Vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £180.* Patron, the Rector of Barwickin-Elmet. The church was built in 1847.
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Manston through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Manston, in Leeds and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24844
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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