Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWTHORPE

NEWTHORPE, a hamlet in Greasley parish, Notts; near the Nottingham canal, 2 miles E of Langley-Mill r.station, and 7 N W of Nottingham. It has a post-office under Nottingham, Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and United Free Methodist chapels, and a national school. Pop., 1, 126. A colliery is at Biggalee, and stocking-making is carried on.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Greasley Parish       Nottinghamshire Ancient County
Place: Newthorpe

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