Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Castle Bolton

Castle Bolton, township, Wensley par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles NW. of Leyburn ry. sta. 4956 ac., pop. 169; contains Bolton Hall, seat of Lord Bolton, and the ruins of Bolton Castle, the prison of Mary Queen of Scots for two years previous to her removal to Tutbury.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Castle Bolton CP/Ch       Wensley AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Castle Bolton

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