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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.
GARTON-ON-THE-WOLDS, a village and a parish in Driffield district, E. R. Yorkshire. The village stands a little N of the Driffield and Malton railway, 3 miles WNW of Great Driffield; and has a station, of the name of Garton, on the railway. The parish comprises 4, 380 acres. Post town, Driffield. Real property, £4, 607. Pop., 572. Houses, 98. The property is divided among a few. Much of the surface is hilly and wooded. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £150. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church stands on an eminence; has a Norman tower; contains old oaken seats and an octagonal font; and is good. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Garton on the Wolds CP/AP Driffield RegD/PLU Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Garton on the Wolds |
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