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Hazlewood

HAZLEWOOD, an extra-parochial district, locally in the parish of Tadcaster, Upper division of the wapentake of Barkstone-Ash, W. riding of York, 3¾ miles (S. W. by S.) from Tadcaster; containing 190 inhabitants. This place, with Stutton, forms a township, comprising about 2610 acres, of a rich limestone soil. Hazlewood Hall, a fine old mansion, is pleasantly seated on a lofty eminence, commanding very extensive views; and near it is a Roman Catholic chapel with two painted windows, and having several handsome monuments to the Vavasours.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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