Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHEVET

CHEVET, a township in Roystone parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the North Midland railway, 3½ miles S by E of Wakefield. Acres, 850. Real property, £1, 394. Pop., 58. Houses, 7. Chevet House is the seat of the baronet family of Pilkington.


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

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Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Chevet

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