Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SWINDALE

SWINDALE, a chapelry in Shap parish, Westmoreland; 4¼ miles SW of Shap r. station. Post town, Penrith. Pop., 73. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £56. Patron, the Vicar of Shap.


(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: Westmorland Ancient County
Place: Swindale

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