Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MOUNT-PELLON

MOUNT-PELLON, a village and a chapelry in Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 1½mile N of Halifax r. station, and has a post-office under Halifax. The chapelry was constituted in 1855. Rated property, about £3,000. Pop. in 1851, 2,021. Houses, 426. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300.* Patron, the Vicar of Halifax. The church was built in 1854, is in the decorated English style, and has a tower. A spacious national school was built in 1858.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Halifax AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Mount Pellon

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