Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DUNSFORTH

DUNSFORTH, a chapelry in Great Ouseburn district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Ure, 3 miles SE of Aldborough, and 4 SE of Boroughbridge r. station. It consists of the two townships of Lower Dunsforth and Upper Dunsforth-cum-Branton-Green. Post town, Aldborough, under York. Acres, 1,860. Real property, £2, 719. Pop., 295. Houses, 64. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £178.* Patron, the Vicar of Aldhorough. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Great Ouseburn RegD/GilU/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Lower Dunsforth

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