Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for REEDNESS

REEDNESS, a township, with a village, in Whitgift parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Ouse, 4¼ miles S E of Howden. Acres, 2, 884. Real property, £8, 228. Pop., 601. Houses, 140. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and an endowed school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Reedness CP       Whitgift AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Reedness

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