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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"YEALAND CONYER, (and YEALAND REDMAYNE), townships in the parish of Warton, hundred of Lonsdale South of the Sands, county Lancaster, 1 mile N. of Warton, 2½ miles S.W. of Burton-in-Kendal, and 8 N.E. of Lancaster. They are situated on the Kendal canal and Carlisle railway. The village is surrounded by numerous seats and villas. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £60, in the patronage of the Hyndman Trustees. The church is dedicated to St. John. There are also a Roman Catholic chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and a meeting-house belonging to the Society of Friends, who have a school here."