Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARWICK-IN-ELMETT

BARWICK-IN-ELMETT, a township in Tadcaster district, and a parish in Tadcaster and Hunslet districts, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies 2½ miles N of Garforth r. station, and 8 ENE of Leeds; includes the hamlets of Barrowby, Crosgates, Barnbow, Hiddle, Morwick, Potterton, Scholes, and Stanks, and part of Win moor; and has a post office under South Milford. Acres, 6,400. Real property, £9,721. Pop., 1,804. Houses, 386. The parish includes also the township of Roundhay. Acres, 8,030. Real property, £15,432. Pop., 2,374. Houses, 496. The property is not much divided. Traces of a castle, said to have been the residence of Edwin, King of Northumbria, occur on Hall Tower hill. A monastery, founded about 730, stood somewhere in the parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £770.* Patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. The church is good; and there are charities £32. The chapelries of Manston and Roundhay are separate benefices. The workhouse of Tadcaster district is in Barwick township.


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

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Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Barwick in Elmet

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