Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SMEATON-KIRK

SMEATON-KIRK, a parish, with a village, in Hemsworth district, W. R. Yorkshire; 2½ miles SW of Womersley r. station, and 5½ SE of Pontefract. Post town, Pontefract. Acres, 1,770. Real property, £3,326. Pop., 333. Houses, 75. The manor belongs to the Neviles. Smeaton Crags are picturesque. Traces exist of a Roman camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £370. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church is Norman. There is a slightly endowed school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hemsworth RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Kirk Smeaton

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