Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rathwell

Rathwell, township and vil., Giggleswick par., and eccl. dist., partly also in Long Preston par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire - dist., pop. 254; township, 3423 ac., pop. 219; vil., on river Ribble, 3 miles SW. of Settle; P.O.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Rathmell

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