Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HILTON

HILTON, a parish in Stokesley district, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Leven, near the boundary with Durham, 3½ miles ESE of Yarm r. station. Post town, Yarm. Acres, 1, 340. Real property, £1, 525. Pop., 127. Houses, 29. The property belonged, in the time of Henry III., to the family of Hilton; and belongs now to the Duke of Devonshire. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £50. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church is good, and has a tower.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hilton Ch/CP       Stokesley RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Hilton

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