Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SEACROFT

SEACROFT, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Hunslet district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 1 mile N of Crossgates r. station, and 4 E N E of Leeds; and has a post-office under Leeds. The township contains also the villages of Crossgates, Foundry, and Killingbeck, and the hamlet of Coldcotes; and is mainly in Whitkirk parish, but partly in that of Leeds. Acres, 1,813. Real property, £5, 923; of which £800 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1,093; in 1861, 1, 235. Houses, 268. The property is much subdivided. S. Hall, S. Grange, Killingbeck Hall, Killingbeck Lodge, Manston Hall, and Manston Lodge are chief residences. The chapelry was constituted in 1846, and is all in Whitkirk parish. Pop. in 1861, 1, 306. Houses, 283. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £260.* Patron, the Vicar of Whitkirk. The church was built in 1845. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hunslet RegD/PLPar/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Seacroft

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