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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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RILLINGTON, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district of Malton and E. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 1 mile S E of the junction of the York and Scarborough railway with the branch-line to Whitby, and 4¼ N E by E of New Malton; and has a station with telegraph at the railway junction, and a post-office under York. The township comprises 2, 460 acres. Real property, £3,086. Pop., 884. Houses, 217. The parish contains also the township of Scampston, and comprises 4, 842 acres. Real property, £5, 309. Pop., 1, 132. Houses, 265. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £256. Patron, Sir G. Strickland, Bart. The church is good, and has an embattled tower, with beautiful octagonal spire. The p. curacy of Scampston is a separate benefice. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and a news-room.—The sub-district contains also seven other parishes. Acres, 37, 303. Pop., 4, 287. Houses, 823.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Rillington AP/CP Rillington SubD Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Rillington |
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