Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STRICKLAND (Great and Little)

STRICKLAND (Great and Little), two townships in Morland parish, Westmoreland; 4¼ miles N of Shap-Acres, 2,265 and 772. Real property, £1,856 and £845. Pop., 308 and 114. Houses, 57 and 22. Great S. belonged to the Stricklands till the time of Henry VI., and passed to the Fallow fields; and it was the birth-place, in 1396, of Bishop de Strickland. Little S. belonged to the Crackenthorpes.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "two townships"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Morland AP/CP       Westmorland AncC
Place: Great Strickland

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