Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Byland Abbey

Byland Abbey, township, Coxwold par., North-Riding Yorksh., 8½ m. SE. of Thirsk, 1712 ac., pop. 92; has extensive and magnificent remains of abbey (1134).


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Byland Abbey CP/Tn       Coxwold AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Byland Abbey

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