Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STAINFORTH

STAINFORTH, a township in Hatfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Don and the Keadby canal, 3½ miles WSW of Thorne. It contains the hamlet and r. station of Sand-Bramwith; has a post-office under Doncaster, a chapel of ease, and three dissenting chapels; and carries on boat-building. Acres, 4,947. Real property, £5,097. Pop, in 1851, 881; in 1861, 751. Houses, 202.


(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: Stainforth

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