Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HELBECK-LUNDS

HELBECK-LUNDS, a hamlet and a chapelry in High Abbotside township, Aysgarth parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet lies near the source of the river Ure and the boundary with Westmoreland, 7 miles NW by W of Hawes, and 10 S by E of Kirkby-Stephen r. station. The chapelry contains also the hamlets of Birkriggs, Camhouses, and Litherskew. Post town, Hawes, under Bedale. Statistics, with the parish 'The surface is mountainous, and much of the scenery is grand. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the p. curacy of Hardlow, in the diocese of Ripon.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Aysgarth CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Lunds

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