Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SULBY

SULBY, a village, a chapelry, and a river, in the Isle of Man. The village stands on the river, 4 miles W of Ramsey, and has a post-office under Douglas, Isle of Man. -The chapelry is in Kirk-Lezayre parish, but has no defined limits. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Sodor and Man. Value, £60. Patron, the Bishop. -The river rises among the loftiest mountains of the island; runs 6 miles northward to S. village, and thence eastward to the sea at Ramsey; and is noted for the picture squeness of its glen, and for a fine waterfall.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a chapelry, and a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: the Isle of Man CrProt
Place: Sulby

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