Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COLLINGHAM

COLLINGHAM, a parish in Tadcaster district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Wharfe, near the Harrogate railway, 2 miles SW of Wetherby. Post town, Wetherby, under Tadcaster. Acres, 2, 553. Real property, £2, 005. Pop., 309. Houses, 71. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £414.* Patron, the Rev.Wheler. The church is old but good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel. A school has £27 from endowment; and other charities £31.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Collingham AP/CP       Tadcaster RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Collingham

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