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What is a chapelry?

What is a chapelry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The district attached to a chapel.
  2. A division of a large or populous parish which has its own parochial or district chapel.
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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.

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