Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HUNTON

HUNTON, a village and a township chapelry in Patrick-Brompton parish, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 2¼ miles N of Finghall-Lane r. station, and 6 NW by W of Bedale; and has a post office under Catterick. The chapelry comprises 1,830 acres. Real property, £4,769. Pop., 524. Houses, 120. The manor belongs to T. Hutton, Esq. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Patrick-Brompton, in the diocese of Ripon. The church was rebuilt in 1794. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a township chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Patrick Brompton Tn/AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Hunton

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