Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Skelton

Skelton, township and vil., Ripon par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire - township, 1926 ac., pop. 299; vil., on river Ure, 2½ miles NW. of Boroughbridge sta.; P.O., called Skelton on Ure.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ripon CP/AP/Tn       Skelton Ch/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: SKELTON     |     SKELTON ON URE
Place: Skelton on Ure

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