Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SCAMMONDEN, or Dean-Head

SCAMMONDEN, or Dean-Head, a township-chapelry in Huddersfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 1¾ mile N W of Slaithwaite r. station, and 6 W by S of Huddersfield. It has a post-office under Huddersfield. Acres, 2,080. Real property, £2, 202. Pop., 1,012. Houses, 190. The property is much subdivided. Cotton-spinning and some fancy-woollen manufacture are carried on. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £200.* Patron, the Vicar of Huddersfield. The church was rebuilt in 1865. There are a Baptist chapel and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Huddersfield Parish       Scammonden Parish       Yorkshire Ancient County
Place names: DEAN HEAD     |     SCAMMONDEN     |     SCAMMONDEN OR DEAN HEAD
Place: Scammonden

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