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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chapeltown like this:
CHAPELTOWN, a subdistrict in Hunslet district, W. R. Yorkshire. It contains Chapel-Allerton and Potter-Newton townships in Leeds parish, Shadwell township in Thorner parish, and Roundhay township in Barwick-in-Elmet parish. Acres, 7,274. Pop., 5,930. Houses, 1,252.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Chapeltown by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Buslingthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Sheepscar | 0 | 2 |
Potter Newton | 0 | 2 |
Leylands | 0 | 1 |
Woodhouse | 0 | 2 |
Chapel Allerton | 0 | 2 |
Burmantofts | 0 | 2 |
Leeds | 115 | 6 |
Wrangthorn | 0 | 2 |
Meanwood | 0 | 2 |
Brewery Field | 0 | 1 |
Headingley | 0 | 2 |
Roundhay | 0 | 2 |
Burley | 0 | 2 |
Moor Allerton | 0 | 2 |
Little Holbeck | 0 | 1 |
Knowsthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Osmondthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Far Headingley | 0 | 2 |
New Wortley | 0 | 2 |