In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chapelthorpe like this:
CHAPELTHORPE, a chapelry in Great Sandall parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the North Midland railway, 3½ miles S of Wakefield. It was constituted in 1843; and it has a post office under Wakefield. Pop., 2,021. Houses, 431. Many of the inhabitants are coal miners. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £189.* Patron, the Vicar of Great Sandall.
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Chapelthorpe through time
Chapelthorpe is now part of Wakefield district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wakefield has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Chapelthorpe itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Chapelthorpe, in Wakefield and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24542
Date accessed: 03rd October 2024
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