Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SCOTBY

SCOTBY, a township-chapelry in Wetheral parish, Cumberland; on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, 2½ miles E of Carlisle. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Carlisle. Acres, 1, 672. Real property, £4, 282. Pop., 520. Houses, 113. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £67. Patrons, Trustees. The church is good; and there are a Quakers' chapel and a village school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wetheral AP/CP       Cumberland AncC
Place: Scotby

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