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.
GARRIGILL, a chapelry in Alston parish, Cumberland; under Middlefell and Hartsidefell, near the sources of the South Tyne, and near the boundaries with Northumberland, Durham, and Westmoreland, 3 miles SE of Alston town and r. station. It has a post office under Carlisle. Rated property, £2, 655. Pop., 1, 447. Houses, 284. The property is much subdivided. The surface, to a large extent, is upland and moorish. Extensive lead mines are here; and copper mines were formerly worked. Fairs are held on the third Friday of May and the last Friday of September. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Alston, in the diocese of Durham. The church is pretty good; and there are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists.
(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: | Cumberland AncC |
| Place: | Garrigill |
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