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EXTRAPAROCHIAL:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.

"EXTRAPAROCHIAL, a parish in the WR. This sentence is placed here as a holder for the place(s) below."

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"SAWLEY, an extra-parochial place, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on the S. W. side of Rippon, was graced with the title of a barony, in the person of Sir James Hay, Kt. whom K. Ja. I. created Ld. Hay of Sawley. Sawley-Hall is the seat of Mr. Norton."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer, 1750]