Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Jervaulx

Jervaulx, hamlet with ry. sta., Witton par., North-Riding Yorkshire, on river Ure, 5 miles SE. of Leyburn; here are ruins of a Cistercian abbey (1156); Jervaulx Abbey is the seat of the Marquis of Ailesbury.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "hamlet with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Jervaulx

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