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.
CHAPELTOWN, a chapelry in Ecclesfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the Sheffield and Barnesley railway, 7 miles N of Sheffield. It has a post office‡ under Sheffield, and a station, jointly with Thorncliffe, on the railway. It was constituted in 1844. Pop., 4,063. Houses, 797. Many of the inhabitants are colliers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1860. There are three dissenting chapels, two public schools, and endowed alms-houses with £130 a year.
(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: | Ecclesfield AP/CP Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Chapeltown |
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