Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GARGRAVE

GARGRAVE, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district in Skipton district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Aire, adjacent to the Leeds and Lancaster railway, 4½ miles WNW of Skipton; and has a bridge over the Aire, a cotton and worsted mill, a station on the railway, a post office‡ under Leeds, and fairs on 12 and 29 Dec. The township comprises 2, 536 acres. Real property, £6, 243. Pop., 1, 103. Houses, 224. The parish contains also the townships of Eshton, Cold-Coniston, Bank-Newton, and Flasby-with-Winter-burn. Acres, 11, 615. Real property, £15, 970. Pop. in 1851, 1,831; in 1861, 1, 6 41. Houses, 321. Gargrave House is a chief residence. The property is much subdivided. Much of the land is disposed in pasture. A remarkable petrifying spring is near Eshton. Remains of a Roman villa, with tesselated pavement, were found about ½ a mile from Gargrave village. The parish is a resort of sportsmen. The living is a vicarage . in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £750.* Patron, the Rev.J. Marsden. The church is ancient but good. The vicarage of Cold-Coniston is a separate benefice. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists. There are also a national school and charities £73. -The sub-district includes also parts of two other parishes. Acres, 18, 614. Pop., 1,852. Houses, 3 66.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Gargrave AP/CP       Gargrave SubD       Skipton RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Gargrave

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