Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for POCKLEY

POCKLEY, a township-chapelry in Helmsley parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on a branch of the river Rye, 1½ mile N E of Helmsley, and 6 N by E of Gilling r. station. Post-town, Helmsley, under York. Acres, 2, 392. Real property, £1, 327. Pop., 199. Houses, 41. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Helmsley, in the diocese of York. The church is modern.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Helmsley AP/CP       Pockley CP/Ch       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Pockley

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