Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SILTON (Over)

SILTON (Over), a township in Northallerton district, and a parish partly also in Thirsk district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies 6¼ miles E by N of Northallerton r. station. Acres, 1,174. Real property, £968. Pop., 94. Houses, 18. The parish contains also Kepwick township, and comprises 3,694 acres. Post town, Northallerton. Pop., 255. Houses, 59. About one-third of the land is moor. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £98. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is tolerable.


(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: Thirsk RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: OVER SILTON     |     SILTON     |     SILTON OVER
Place: Over Silton

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