Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NOTTON

NOTTON, a village and a township in Roystone parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on an eminence near the North Midland railway, 4 miles N of Barnsley; is a scattered place; and has a station, jointlywith Roystone, on the railway . The township includesalso part of the hamlet of Staincross, and comprises 2, 595 acres. Real property, £3, 558; of which £20 are in quarries. Pop., 286. Houses, 57. The property belongs to G. Wentworth, Esq.


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

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Feature Description: "a village and a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Notton

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