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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Batley Carr like this:
BATLEY-CARR, a hamlet and a chapelry in Batley and Dewsbury parishes, W. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet stands ¾ of a mile S of Batley, and has a post office under Dewsbury. The chapelry was constituted in 1842. Rated property, £6,505. Pop., 3,859. Houses, 796. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Dewsbury. The church is good.
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Purlwell | 0 | 1 |
Hanging Heaton | 0 | 2 |
Staincliffe | 0 | 2 |
West Town | 0 | 2 |
Batley | 1 | 2 |
Dewsbury Moor | 0 | 2 |
Carlinghow | 0 | 2 |
Earlsheaton | 0 | 3 |
Soothill | 0 | 2 |
Heckmondwike | 0 | 2 |
Thornhill Lees | 0 | 2 |
Dewsbury | 8 | 2 |
Gawthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Brownhill | 0 | 2 |
Ravensthorpe | 0 | 1 |
Mill Bridge | 0 | 2 |
Birstall | 23 | 2 |
Ossett | 0 | 3 |
Liversedge | 0 | 2 |
Ardsley West | 0 | 3 |