Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RAWCLIFFE

RAWCLIFFE, a township in St. Olave-Marygate and St. Michael parishes, N. R. Yorkshire; on the York and Scarborough railway, 2½ miles N W by N of York. Pop.in 1851, 48; in 1861, 115. Houses, 19. The manor belongs to Earl de Grey.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Rawcliffe

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