Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MELMERBY

MELMERBY, a township in Wath parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the Northeastern railway, at the junction of the branch to Northallerton, 3½ miles N by E of Ripon. It has a station with telegraph at the railway junction. Acres, 1,109. Real property, £2,241. Pop., 285. Houses, 70.


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

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

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