Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WORTLEY (New)

WORTLEY (New), a chapelry in Wortley township, Leeds parish, W. R. Yorkshire; suburban to Leeds, and adjoining Holbeck. Post town, Leeds. Pop., 7,334. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. See preceding article.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Leeds AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: NEW WORTLEY     |     WORTLEY     |     WORTLEY NEW
Place: New Wortley

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