A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BARDSEA, a township-chapelry in Urswick parish, Lancashire; on Morecambe bay, 3 miles S by E of Ulverstone r. station. It has a post office under Ulverstone.Real property, £1,846. Pop., 272. Houses, 62. A hospital of the Knights of St. John once stood here. A project was at one time afoot to cut a ship canal hence to the foot of Windermere. The chapelry was constituted in 1854. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £100. Patron, the Rev. F. Lee. The church is modern Gothic. There is an endowed school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Urswick AP/CP Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Bardsea |
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