Place:Buttershaw, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameButtershaw
TypeChapelry
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England
Also located inWest Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
Yorkshire, England    

The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portmouth Department of Geography).

"BUTTERSHAW, a chapelry in Bradford parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire, near Bradford; constituted in 1842. Post Town: Bradford. Rated property: £4,334. Population: 2,247. Houses: 505. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value: £200. Patron: --- Hardy, Esq. The church was built in 1838; and a handsome Independent chapel was built in 1868."

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