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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Barlow like this:
BARLOW, or Barley, a township-chapelry in Brayton parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Ouse, 3 miles SE of Selby r. station. Post Town, Selby. Acres, 2,278. Real property, £3,438. Pop., 239. Houses, 46. The living is a donative in the diocese of York. Value, £30. Patron, G. H. Thompson, Esq.
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Camblesforth | 0 | 2 |
Long Drax | 0 | 2 |
Cliffe | 0 | 2 |
Drax | 1 | 2 |
Lund | 0 | 1 |
Hemingbrough | 0 | 2 |
Burn | 0 | 2 |
Carlton | 0 | 3 |
Brayton | 0 | 2 |
Barlby | 0 | 2 |
Temple Hirst | 0 | 3 |
Hirst Courtney | 0 | 2 |
Osgodby | 0 | 2 |
Selby | 19 | 2 |
Barmby on the Marsh | 0 | 2 |
Woodhall | 0 | 2 |
Brackenholme | 0 | 2 |
South Duffield | 0 | 2 |
Chapel Haddlesey | 0 | 3 |
Newland | 0 | 2 |