Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KELBROOK

KELBROOK, a chapelry in Thornton-in-Craven parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Colne and Skipton railway, adjacent to Lancashire, 1½ mile NE of Foulridge r. station and 3 NNE of Colne. Post town, Colne. Pop., about 1, 100. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £180.* Patron, Wilson, Esq. The church was built in 1838; is in the pointed style; and consists of nave, aisles, and transept, with porch and tower. There are a Methodist chapel and a national school..


(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: Thornton in Craven AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Kelbrook

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