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KILNSAY, a village in Coniston-with-Kilnsay township, Burnsall parish, W. R. Yorkshire; in the valley of the Wharfe, 12 miles N of Skipton. It has a post office under Skipton, and two inns; and it was the place to which the monks of Fountains abbey sent their flocks annually to be shorn. Kilnsay Crag, in its vicinity, consists of limestone; is about 160 feet high, and nearly half a mile long; and exhibits such a greatly water worn base as indicates ancient sea-erosion along the valley.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Burnsall Parish Yorkshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Kilnsey |
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