Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kirkdale

Kirkdale, par., North-Riding Yorkshire, on river Bran, 8 miles NW. of Pickering, 9686 ac., pop. 987; in Kirkdale Cave (300 ft. long, discovered in 1821), great quantities of fossils have been found.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kirkdale AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Kirkdale

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