Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bardsea like this:

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 ...

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is an endowed school.

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