Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Thwaites like this:

THWAITES, a chapelry in Millom parish, Cumberland; near Millom r. station. Post town, Holborn-Hill, under Ulverstone. Real property, £2,435. Pop., 350. Houses, 61. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £115. Patrons, the Landowners. The church was rebuilt in 1715.

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