Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LEALHOLME

LEALHOLME, a vale and a railway station, in Glaisdale parish, N. R. Yorkshire. The vale is traversed by a brook to the river Esk, at a point 10 miles WSW of Whitby; is well wooded to the length of about a mile; and has rocky sides about 150 feet high. The railway station is on the North Yorkshire and Cleveland railway, adjacent to the foot of the vale.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a vale and a railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "valleys")
Administrative units: Glaisdale Ch/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Lealholme

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