A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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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.
STANNINGTON, a chapelry, with a village and several hamlets, in Ecclesfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 3¾ miles W of Sheffield r. station. It was constituted in 1843; and it has a post-office under Sheffield. Pop., 2,909. Houses, 554. Cutlery and hardware manufacture are carried on; and paper and fire-bricks are made. A Roman settlement was here. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Ecclesfield. The church is modern. There are chapels for Primitive Methodists, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry, with a village and several hamlets" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Ecclesfield AP/CP Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Stannington |
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