Collingham, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1750.

COLLINGHAM:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.

"COLLINGHAM, a parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire, near Wetherby, was let formerly to the abbess of Kirkstall, who paid 90 l. a year for it to the exchequer. Sir Tho. Holland, afterwards Earl of Kent, had it afterwards by marriage of a lady, who surviving him, married the Black Prince Edward."

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