Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for THURCROSS, or Thruscross

THURCROSS, or Thruscross, a township, with a village, in Fewston parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 6½ miles N of Otley. Acres, 6,340-Real property, £3,966. Pop., 363. Houses, 78. There are flaxmills, a chapel of ease, two Methodist chapels, and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Fewston CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: THRUSCROSS     |     THURCROSS     |     THURCROSS OR THRUSCROSS
Place: Thruscross

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