Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BILSDALE

BILSDALE, a mountain-vale, a township, a hamlet, two constablewicks, and a chapelry in Helmsley district, N. R. Yorkshire. The vale begins about 5 miles SE by S of Stokesley; and extends 11 miles southward to Rivaulx, 3½ miles NW of Helmsley. Its head is overhung by Whinston and Botton-Head, mountains 2,300 and 1,485 feet high; and its sides are flanked by other heights, and cut by lateral vales. The view at its head is very magnificent; and the scenery in some other parts of it is grand.-The township is called Bilsdale-Midcable; the hamlet, Bilsdale-Kirkham; the constablewicks, Bilsdale-East-side and Bilsdale-High-Westside; and all are in the vale or on its sides.—The chapelry also is called Bilsdale-Midcable; and it includes all the Bilsdales, and likewise the hamlets of Crossett, Chapelgate, Chapelgate and Urra, and the constablewick of Raisdale: and is in the parish of Helmsley. The nearest railway station to it is Stokesley; and the nearest Post Towns, Stokesley, under Northallerton, and Helmsley, under York. Acres, 18,971. Real property, £4,018. Pop., 738. Houses, 126. The property is not much divided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £130. Patron, the Vicar of Helmsley. The church is good; and there is a Quakers' chapel.


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

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Feature Description: "a mountain-vale, a township, a hamlet, two constablewicks, and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "valleys")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Bilsdale

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