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LANGDALE, a hamlet and a township-chapelry in Grasmere parish, Westmoreland. The hamlet stands in Great Langdale vale, 4 miles W by N of Ambleside, and 8 NW of Windermere r. station.The chapelry contains also the hamlet of Elter-water, which has a post-office under Windermere; and it comprises the vales of Great Langdale and Little Langdale, and a portion of Loughrigg. Acres, 7,702. Real property, £2,155; of which £70 are in quarries. Pop., 534. Houses, 109. But these statistics are exclusive of the Loughrigg portion. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £143.* Patron, the Rector of Grasmere. The church stands at Langdale hamlet, and was built in 1858. A previous church was in Little Langdale, at a place now called Chapel-Mire.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a hamlet and a township-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Grasmere CP/Ch/AP Langdales Ch/CP Westmorland AncC |
Place: | Langdale |
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