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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 "SHAFTOE":
Place name County Entry Source BAVINGTON (great) Northumberland Acres, 1,565. Pop., 61. Houses, 15. Bavington Hall is the seat ofC. Shafto, Esq. There is an English Presbyterian church. Imperial BENWELL Northumberland Shaftoes. Benwell High Cross, to the E, was named from a cross that formerly stood at it. The chapelry is more Imperial BRANCEPETH County Durham Shafto, Esq. The church is ancient and cruciform; has an early English tower and later English chancel and clerestory; and contains Imperial BUCKWORTH Huntingdonshire living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £330.* Patron, R. E. D. Shafto, Esq. The church is good. Imperial HARTBURN Northumberland Shaftoe, West Shaftoe, Greenleighton, Harwood, Hartington, Hartington-Hall, Rothley, and Fairnley. Acres, 25, 778. Real property, £17, 090; of which Imperial ILKETSHALL-ST. MARGARET Suffolk Shafto Adair, Bart. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £121.* Patron, the Duke of Norfolk Imperial Shaftoe, East and West Northumberland Shaftoe, East and West , 2 townships, Hartburn par., Northumberland, 10 miles SW. of Morpeth - East Shaftoe, 622 ac., pop. 20; West Bartholomew SHAFTOE (East and West) Northumberland SHAFTOE (East and West) , two townships in Hartburn parish, Northumberland; 10 miles W S W of Morpeth. Acres, 602 and 489. Pop., 32 and 31. Houses Imperial
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