Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOULBY

SOULBY, a township-chapelry, with a village, in Kirkby-Stephen parish, Westmoreland; on the river Eden, 2½ miles NW of Kirkby-Stephen r. station. Post town, Brough, under Penrith. Acres, 2,495. Rated property, £1,921. Pop., 453. Houses, 77. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £118. Patron, Sir G. Musgrave, Bart. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, and charities £5.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kirkby Stephen CP/AP       Soulby Ch/Tn/CP       Westmorland AncC
Place: Soulby

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