Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for AISKEW, or Askew

AISKEW, or Askew, a township in Bedale parish, N. R.Yorkshire; ¾ mile ENE of Bedale. It contains Little Leeming hamlet, Baptist and Roman Catholic chapels, and an endowed school. Pop., 759. Houses, 164.


(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: Aiskew CP/Tn       Bedale CP/Tn/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: AISKEW     |     AISKEW OR ASKEW     |     ASKEW
Place: Aiskew

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