Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rowsley

Rowsley, township and vil. with ry. sta. (for Chatsworth), Bakewell par., and eccl. dist., partly also in Darley and Youlgreave pars., Derbyshire - dist., pop. 388; township (Great Rowsley), 700 ac., pop. 284; vil., on river Derwent, at the influx of the Wye, 3½ miles SE. of Bakewell; P.O., T.O.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bakewell CP/AP       Great Rowsley CP/Tn       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Great Rowsley

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