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.
MICKLEFIELD, a township-chapelry in Sherburn parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Selby rail way, 8½ miles E by N of Leeds. It has a station on the railway; and a new line was in course of formation from it to Church-Fenton in 1867. Post town, Milford Junction. Acres, 1,755. Real property, £2,553; of which £500 are in mines, and £180 in quarries. Pop., 435. Houses, 88. The manor belongs to T. D. Bland, Esq. There are collieries and limestone quarries. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Sherburn, in the diocese of York. The church was built in 1861, at a cost of £1,1 00; is in the early English style; and consists of nave and chancel, with bell-turret. There is a national 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: | Sherburn CP/AP Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Micklefield |
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