Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KETTLENESS

KETTLENESS, a hamlet in Lythe township and parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the coast, at the SE side of Runswick bay, 6 miles NW of Whitby. Here are alum works belonging to the Marquis of Normanby. Here also are fossiliferous cliffs, parts of which took fire and burned for two years.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lythe CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Kettleness

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