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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- source: Family History Library Catalog
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Mitton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "MITTON, a parish in the [registration] district of Clitheroe, and partly in Lancashire, but chiefly in [West Riding of] Yorkshire; including a peninsular tract at the confluence of the rivers Hodder and Ribble, 2¼ miles SW of Clitheroe [railway] station. It was once a part of Whalley parish; and it contains the hamlets of Chaigley, Aighton, and Bailey in Lancashire, and the townships of Great Mitton, Bashall-Eaves, Waddington, West Bradford, and Grindleton in [West Riding of] Yorkshire. Post town, Clitheroe, under Blackburn.
- "Acres of the Lancashire portion: 5,780. Real property: £6,726; of which £50 are in quarries. Population in 1851: 1,613; in 1861: 1,500. Houses: 244.
- "Acres of the Yorkshire portion: 12,323. Real property: £15,476. Population in 1851: 2,203; in 1861: 1,903.
- "The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to J. W. Aspinall, Esq. The scenery is picturesque. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £180. Patron, J. W. Aspinall, Esq. The church was built in the time of Edward III.; belonged to Cockersand abbey; consists of nave and chancel, with porch and low tower; and contains effigies and tombs of the Sherburns. The [perpetual] curacies of Grindleton, Hurst-Green, and Waddington, are separate benefices. There are Wesleyan chapels in Grindleton and Waddington, a national school in Grindleton, alms houses in Grindleton and Waddington, and charities £9 in Great Mitton."
Historically, Mitton was an ecclesiastical parish in Staincliffe and Ewcross Wapentake in the West Riding. From 1894 until 1974, it remained in the West Riding in the Bowland Rural District. In 1974 the area became part of the Ribble Valley District in Lancashire.
The ancient parish of Mitton included the following townships, all of which became civil parishes in 1866: Aighton Bailey and Chaigley (which was in Lancashire), Bashall Eaves, Great Mitton (redirected here), Grindleton, Waddington, and West Bradford.
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Categories: West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Mitton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Staincliffe and Ewcross Wapentake, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Bowland Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | Ribble Valley (borough), Lancashire, England | Lancashire, England
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