Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HESSAY

HESSAY, a township in Monkton-Moor parish, E. R. Yorkshire; on the York and Harrogate railway, 5¼ miles WNW of York. It has a station on the railway. Acres, 1, 120. Real property, £1, 626. Pop., 127. Houses, 28. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Hessay

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