Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BALDERSBY

BALDERSBY, a township and a chapelry in Topcliffe parish, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Swale and on the Leeds and Thirsk railway, 5 miles NE of Ripon. It has a station on the railway, of the name of Baldersby-Gate: and its Post Town is Topcliffe, under Thirsk. Acres, 1,752. Real property, £3,360. Pop., 333. Houses, 67. The chapelry is more extensive than the township. Pop. in 1851, 687. The property belongs to two. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £120.* Patron, Viscount Downe. The church is new.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Baldersby Tn/CP       Topcliffe Tn/CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Baldersby

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