By that date about a third of the chapelry was under arable, somewhat under two thirds under grassland and orchard. |
Ashford is a small village and chapelry to Bakewell, about one mile away on the Buxton Road. |
The increasing duties of his chapelry had rendered this step necessary. |
In his 1870 Gazetteer, Wilson reports that the chapelry of Warton also included the Freckleton township, and comprised 6,598 acres, with a population 1,325 and 270 houses. |
He concluded that one of the assistant priests from a chapelry under the great Church was ministering there in his stead. |
The chapelry contained, in 1821, a population of 2,646, and in 1831, 2,678 inhabitants. |