A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
NUNTHORPE, a township-chapelry in Ayton parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the Guisbrough branch of the Stockton and Darlington railway, 3½ miles N N E of Stokesley. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is Stokesley, under Northallerton. Acres, 1, 410. Real property, £1, 849. Pop., 160. Houses, 27. The manor, with Nunthorpe Hall, belongs to the trustees of the late W. Simpson, Esq. A Cistertian nunnery was removed hither from Hutton about 1160, and gave rise to the name Nunthorpe. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £46. Patrons, the Representatives of T. Simpson, Esq., and another. The church was rebuilt in 1824.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Ayton CP/AP Nunthorpe Ch/CP Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Nunthorpe |
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