Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DALTON

DALTON, a township in Kirkby-Ravensworth parish, N. R. Yorkshire; near Watling-street, 6 miles NW of Richmond. Acres, 2, 619. Real property, £3, 436. Pop., 222. Houses, 52. There are a chapel of ease and an endowed school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Dalton Tn/CP       Kirkby Ravensworth AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Dalton

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