Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MIDHOPE

MIDHOPE, a chapelry, containing the small villages of Midhope-Stones and Upper Midhope, in Ecclesfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Little Don, 2½ miles SW by S of Penistone r. station. Post town, Penistone, under Sheffield. Rated property, £780. Pop., about 340. The property is divided among a few; but the Bosville estate is far the largest. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £64. Patron, G. W. B. Bosville, Esq. The church is ancient. There is a slightly endowed school.


(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: Ecclesfield AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Midhope

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