Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CARRINGTON

CARRINGTON, a hamlet and a chapelry in Basford parish, Notts. The hamlet stands 1¼ mile N of Nottingham, and has a post office under Nottingham. Pop., 353. The chapelry was constituted in 1843. Pop., 2,426. Houses, 519. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £150. Patron, the Bishop of L. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Basford CP/AP       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Carrington

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