A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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BURLEY, a township-chapelry in Otley parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Ilkley railway, 2 miles W by N of Otley. It includes a village, with a well built street about ¼ of a mile long; and has a post office† under Otley, and a r. station. Acres, 4,037. Real property, £8,638. Pop., 2,136. Houses, 417. Burley Old Hall, Burley New Hall, and Burley Lodge are principal residences; and the latter two were built, in the latter part of last century, by Mande, the local descriptive poet. Many of the inhabitants are employed in cotton and worsted mills. The living is a vicarage, with Menston, in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £137.* Patron, T. Horsfall, Esq. The church is modern; and there are three dissenting chapels.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Otley AP/CP/Tn Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Burley in Wharfedale |
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