Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WRANGTHORN

WRANGTHORN, a chapelry in Leeds parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near Leeds. It was constituted in 1866; and its Post town is Leeds. Pop., about 2,200. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop.


(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: Leeds AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Wrangthorn

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