Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WEETON

WEETON, a township-chapelry, with a r. station, in Otley parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Harrogate railway, 6 miles ENE of Otley. Post town, Harewood, under Leeds. Acres, 1,230. Real property, £2,150. Pop., 317. Houses, 74. The manor belongs to the Earl of Harewood. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £100.* Patron, the Earl of Harewood. The church is recent and handsome-There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry, with a r station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Otley AP/CP/Tn       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Weeton

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