Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LINTON

LINTON, a village, a township, and a parish in Skipton district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Wharfe, 7½ miles N of Skipton r. station; and has a post office under Skipton. The township comprises 1,201 acres. Real property, £2,141. Pop., 284. Houses, 66.—The parish contains also the townships of Threshfield, Grassington, and Hebden. Acres, 13,142. Real property, £21,092; of which £10,430 are in mines. Pop. in 1851,2,221; in 1861,1,911. Houses, 447. The decrease of pop. arose mainly from reduction of employ. ment at a cotton factory. The property is much subdivided. The surface abounds in beautiful, picturesque, and romantic scenery. Lead mines, chiefly in Grassington, and chiefly belonging to the Duke of Devonshire, are extensively worked. A cotton factory is in Linton township, and a worsted factory is in Grassington. The living is a rectory - formerly of two medieties, but consolidated in 1866-in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £400.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient; was restored in 1861; comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with a porch; and contains monumental tablets to the Revs. M. Hewitt and H. Croft. Chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, a mechanics' institution, and a national school, are in Grassington; a free school, with exhibitions at St. John's college, Cambridge, and alms houses for six persons are in Linton township; and a grammar school, founded and endowed by the Rev. M. Hewitt, who died in 1674, is in Threshfield. The total endowments, for schools and charities, are £385 a year.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Linton AP/CP       Skipton RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Linton

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