Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HORSEHOUSE

HORSEHOUSE, a chapelry in Coverham parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Cover, 7 ½ miles S w of Middleham, and 8½ S W by S of Leyburn r. station. It has a post office under Bedale. The statistics are returned with the parish. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the p. curacy of Coverham, in the diocese of Ripon.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Coverham Parish       Yorkshire Ancient County
Place: Horsehouse

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