Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RASHCLIFFE

RASHCLIFFE, a chapelry in Almondbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near Huddersfield r. station. It was constituted in 1864; and its post town is Huddersfield. Pop., 4, 140. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150.* Patron, the Incumbent of Lock-wood. The church was built in 1864, at a cost of £2, 300; is in the decorated English style and cruciform; and has a S W tower and spire.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Almondbury AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Rashcliffe

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