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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))
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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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