Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Whitby

Whitby, township, Eastham and Stoke pars., Cheshire, on Ellesmere Canal, 6 miles N. of Chester, 1232 ac. (18 water) and 190 tidal water and foreshore, pop. 1488.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cheshire AncC
Place: Whitby

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