Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MELTONBY

MELTONBY, a township-chapelry in Pocklington parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 2 miles NNW of Pocklington r. station. Post town, Pocklington, under York. Acres, 710. Real property, with Yapham, £2,977. Pop., of M. alone, 66. Houses, 12. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Pocklington, in the diocese of York. The church serves also for Yapham; and is a small building, with a bell-turret.


(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: Pocklington AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Meltonby

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