Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SAWLEY

SAWLEY, a township-chapelry, with a village and four hamlets, in Ripon parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 4½ miles N W by W of Wormald-Green r. station, and 5 S W of Ripon. Post-town, Ripon. Acres, 3, 203. Real property, £2, 933. Pop., 446. Houses, 96. The manor, with S. Hall, belongs to H. Wormald, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £126.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of R. The church isplain. Charities, £15.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry, with a village and four hamlets"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ripon CP/AP/Tn       Sawley Tn/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Sawley

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