Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for South Cave

South Cave, par., township, vil., and local gov. dist. with ry. sta., East-Riding Yorkshire - par., 7625 ac., pop. 1452; township, 4337 ac., pop. 960; dist. (South Cave and Wallingfen, extending into Eastrington par.), 8317 ac., pop. 2065; vil., 10 miles NW. of Hull; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. South Cave is situated in a wooded hollow of the Wolds, and was the seat of the ancestors of George Washington, a fine portrait of whom is in Cave Castle.


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

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Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: South Cave CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: South Cave

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