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.
CRAKEHALL, a township in Bedale parish, and a chapelry in Bedale and Patrick-Brompton parishes, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on an affluent of the river Swale, and on the Northallerton and Leyburn railway, 2¼ miles NW by W of Bedale; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Bedale. Acres, 1, 752. Real property, £4, 405. Pop., 583. Houses, 144. The chapelry was constituted in 1840. Pop., 817. Houses, 195. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rector of Bedale. The church is Gothic; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Crakehall |
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