Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HUTTON (OLD)

HUTTON (OLD), a township chapelry in Kendal parish, Westmoreland; on the river Beetha, 2¾ miles SSE of Oxenholme r. station, and 4½ SE by S of Kendal. It includes the hamlet of Holmscales; and it has a postoffice under Milnthorpe. Real property, £3,276. Pop., 406. Houses, 74. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £98. * Patron, the Vicar of Kendal. The church was rebuilt in 1669, and has a bell turret. There is an endowed school, founded in 1513, with a library attached.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kendal Tn/AP/CP       Old Hutton and Holmescales CP/Tn/Ch       Westmorland AncC
Place names: HUTTON     |     HUTTON OLD     |     OLD HUTTON
Place: Old Hutton

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