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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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HARSWELL, a parish in Pocklington district, E. R. Yorkshire; on the Selby and Market-Weighton railway, 3 ½ miles WSW of Market-Weighton. It has a postoffice under York, and a station, of the name of Harswell-Gate, on the railway. Acres, 1, 106. Real property, £921. Pop., 89. Houses, 13. The property is divided among a few. The manor, with most of the property, belongs to Sir Charles Slingsby, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £200.* Patron, SirSlingsby, Bart. Measures were mature in the latter part of 1865 for building a new church in 1866.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Harswell CP/AP Pocklington RegD/PLU Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Harswell |
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