Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BURTON-LEONARD

BURTON-LEONARD, a parish in Ripon district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Northallerton railway, near Wormald Green station, 4 miles SSE of Ripon. It has a post office under Ripon. Acres, 1,739. Real property, £2,405. Pop., 507. Houses, 121. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £140. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of York. The church is tolerable; and there are two Methodist chapels, a n. school, and charities £31.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Burton Leonard AP/CP       Ripon RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Burton Leonard

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