Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Thornton on the Hill like this:

Thornton on the Hill cum Baxby, township, Coxwold par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 3 miles N. of Easingwold, 1448 ac., pop. 92.

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Travel writing

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