Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TADDINGTON AND PRIESTCLIFF

TADDINGTON AND PRIESTCLIFF, a township-chapelry in Bakewell parish, Derby; 1¾ mile S by E of Monsal-Dale r. station, and 5½ WNW of Bakewell. Post town, Bakewell. Acres, 3,850. Real property. £3,014. Pop., 507. Houses, 94. The property is much subdivided. An ancient British burying-place is on the top of Five-Wells hill. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £91.* Patron, the Vicar of Ba1kewell. The church is old. There are two endowed schools with £80 and £15 a year, and charities £10.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bakewell CP/AP       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Taddington

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