Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for REAGILL

REAGILL, a township in Crosby-Ravensworth parish, Westmoreland; 2 miles N E of Shap. It was formerly called Renegill; and it belonged to Shap abbey, and passed to the Whartons and the Lowthers. Real property, £1, 415. Coal exists, but is of inferior quality, and is not worked. There was formerly a chapel; and there is now an endowed school with £30 a year.


(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: Crosby Ravensworth CP/AP       Westmorland AncC
Place names: REAGILL     |     RENEGILL
Place: Reagill

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