Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LANCASTER (DUCHY OF)

LANCASTER (DUCHY OF), a hundred in the NW of Gloucester; consisting of detached parts; and containing Bulley parish, four other parishes, and part of another. Acres, 8,768. Pop., 2,717. Houses, 567.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire AncC
Place names: DUCHY OF LANCASTER     |     LANCASTER     |     LANCASTER DUCHY OF
Place: Duchy of Lancaster

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