Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Melling

Melling.-- par. and vil. with ry. sta., N. Lancashire, in Lune Valley, 1¼ mile NW. of Wennington Junction and 11¾ miles NE. of Lancaster, 23,437 ac., pop. 1809; P.O.; in vicinity of vil. is Melling Hall, seat.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Melling CP/AP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Melling

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