Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wass

Wass, township, Kilburn par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 6 miles SW. of Helmsley, 856 ac., pop. 113; the Gorge of Wass is a mountain road across the Hambleton Hills.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kilburn Ch/CP       Wass CP/Tn       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Wass

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