Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MANSTON

MANSTON, a chapelry in Barwick-in-Elmet parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near the Leeds and Selby railway, 3¼ miles E by N of Leeds. It was constituted in 1849; and its Post town is Seacroft, under Leeds. Rated property, £2,080. Pop., 606. Houses, 131. The property is subdivided. The living is a Vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £180.* Patron, the Rector of Barwickin-Elmet. The church was built in 1847.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Barwick in Elmet and Scholes AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Manston

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