Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HAWLEY

HAWLEY, a tything and a chapelry in Yately parish, Hants. The tything lies near the river Blackwater, the boundary with Surrey, and Blackwater r. station, 8 N by E of Farnham; and has a fair on 8 Nov. Real property, £3,119. Pop., with Minley, 1,119. Houses, 202. The chapelry was constituted in 1838; and its post-town is Blackwater, under Farnborough Station. Pop., 805. Houses, 153. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, not reported. * Patrons, the Representatives of the Late Rev. J. Randell. The church is a Gothic edifice of 1838. There is a national school.


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

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Feature Description: "a tything and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hampshire AncC
Place: Hawley

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