Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWBIGGIN

NEWBIGGIN, a village in Ravenstonedale parish, Westmoreland; contiguous to the South Durham and Lancashire Union railway, 1¼ mile N W of Ravenstone-dale. It has a station on the railway . Great Ewe fell, 1, 198 feet high, rises immediately to the N; and Ashfell rises a little to the E.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ravenstonedale CP/AP       Westmorland AncC
Place: Newbiggin on Lune

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