Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CALTON

CALTON, a township in Kirkby-in-Malham-Dale parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on an affluent of the river Aire, near the Midland railway, 7 miles SE by E of Settle. Acres, 1,730. Real property, £1,286. Pop., 56. Houses, 12. General Lambert, one of the parliamentarian leaders in the civil wars, was a native.


(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: Calton CP/Tn       Kirkby in Malham Dale AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Calton

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