Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DRIFFIELD (Little)

DRIFFIELD (Little), a township-chapelry in Driffield parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 1 mile WNW of Driffield. Post town, Driffield. Rated property, £3, 398. Pop., 197. Houses, 41. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Driffield, in the diocese of York. The church is good; and has a stone tablet, bearing that the body of Alfred, king of Northumbria, who died in 705, was buried here.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Driffield CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: DRIFFIELD     |     DRIFFIELD LITTLE     |     LITTLE DRIFFIELD
Place: Little Driffield

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