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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  SCORTON	Manor	CATTERICK Tn/AP/CP (Parish-level Unit)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "SCORTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BOLTON-UPON-SWALE	Yorkshire	died in 1670 at the age of 169. An endowed school at Scorton has £231; and other charities £18.	Imperial
  CATTERICK	Yorkshire	Scorton, Uckerby, Ellerton-upon-Swale, and Bolton-upon-Swale, in Catterick parish. Acres, 20,179. Pop., 3,164. Houses, 681.—The parish	Imperial
  DOLPHINHOLME	Lancashire	Scorton r. station, 6 ½ miles S. of Lancaster. It has a post office under Lancaster. The living is a vicarage	Imperial
  MELSONBY	Yorkshire	Scorton r. station; and has a post office under Darlington. The parish comprises 2,669 acres. Real property, £3,973. Pop., 471. Houses	Imperial
  MIDDLETON-TYAS	Yorkshire	Scorton r. station, and 5¼ NE of Richmond; and has a post office under Richmond, Yorkshire. The township bears	Imperial
  PILLING	Lancashire	Scorton r. station, and 6½ N Wby W of Garstang; and has a post-office under Preston. The chapelry	Imperial
  Scorton	Yorkshire	Scorton , township and vil. with ry. sta., Catterick par., North-Riding Yorkshire - township, 1407 ac., pop. 407; vil., 5½ miles	Bartholomew
  Scorton	Lancashire	Scorton .-- eccl. dist. and vil. with ry. sta., Garstang par., N. Lancashire - dist., pop. 604; vil., 3½ miles N. of Garstang	Bartholomew
  SCORTON	Lancashire	SCORTON , a village in Garstang parish, Lancashire; on the river Wyre, under Wyresdale fells, adjacent to the Lancaster and Carlisle	Imperial
  SCORTON	Yorkshire	SCORTON , a village and a township in Catterick parish, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the Richmond and Darlington	Imperial
  SHIRESHEAD, or Shirehead	Lancashire	Scorton r. station, and 4 N by E of Garstang. Post town, Garstang. Pop., 397. Houses, 95. The living is a vicarage	Imperial
  WYERSDALE (Nether)	Lancashire	Scorton village and Dolphinholme cotton factory; and comprises 3,640 acres. Real property, £3,892. Pop., 667. Houses, 121. The manor	Imperial
  Wyresdale (or Wyersdale), Nether	Lancashire	miles NE. of Garstang, 4215 ac., pop. 606; has a cotton factory, and contains Scorton vil., and Wyresdale Park , seat.	Bartholomew

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