A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
LAISTER-DYKE, a chapelry in Bowling township, Bradford parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Bradford and Leeds railway, at the junction of the line south-eastward thence, 1½ mile E by S of Bradford. It was constituted in 1861; and it has a station with telegraph at the railway junction, and a post-office under Bradford, Yorkshire. Pop., about 5,000. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £93.* Patrons, Simeon's Trustees. The church was built in 1861, at a cost of £2,600; is in the early decorated English style; and has a tower.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Bradford AP/CP Laister Dyke EP West Riding Riding Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Laister Dyke |
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