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{{Locations_Infobox
|presidency= [[Bengal (Presidency)|Bengal]]
|image=
|coordinates= [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.35323,79.40937&spn=0.1,0.1&q=28.35323,79.40937 28.35323°N, 79.40937°E]
|altitude= 166 m (545 ft)
|presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bareilly Bareilly]
|stateprovince= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh Uttar Pradesh]
|country= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]
|transport= [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]]<br>[[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]]<br>[[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]]
}}
{{Places of Interest|title=Bareilly|name=Bareilly |link=xxxxx}}
'''Bareilly''', situated on the Ramganga river 812 miles northwest of [[Calcutta]] by rail, was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V07_008.gif Bareilly District] in the Bareilly Division of United Provinces during the British period. There was a cantonment.
Bareilly was an important junction on the [[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]] and a terminus for the metre gauge lines of the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway|Bombay, Baroda and Central India]] and [[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway|Rohilkund and Kumaon Railways]].
== Spelling variants==
Modern name: Bareilly<br>
Variants: Bareli
== Military history ==
[[Battle of Bareilly]] 1858
==FIBIS Resources==
[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_classes&source_class=334 Transcriptions of gravestones in Bareilly Cemetery] FIBIS Database
==Churches==
*Christ Church, consecrated February 11, 1840<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LNEQCLbWoP4C&pg=PA447 "List of Churches in the Diocese of Calcutta"] page 443 ''The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume I'' Google Books</ref>
*Stephen's Church, consecrated in 1862 <ref> [https://archive.org/stream/handbookbengalp00eastgoog#page/n269/mode/1up Page 254] ''Handbook of the Bengal Presidency. With an account of Calcutta City'' by Edward E Eastwick, published by John Murray 1882 Archive.org </ref>
== External links ==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V07_018.gif Bareilly City] Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 7, page 12<br>
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/skydiver_7pm/1377533256/in/gallery-23268776@N03-72157629054551929/ Photograph: Church of North India at Bareilly, 2006], built 1856 flickr.com. Elsewhere labelled St Stephen's Church, Bareilly Cantonment. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161020175235/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/58315557 Another photograph] Panoramio.com, now archived.
*[http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/collection/a-moffatt/ 1979 Audio recording by Mrs Agnes Moffatt, wife of an officer 1st Kumaon Rifles] with [http://media.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/pdf/077a.pdf Typescript Part 1] and [http://media.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/pdf/077b.pdf Typescript Part 2] s-asian.cam.ac.uk. She first joined her husband in Constantinople in 1921 and c 1922 was posted to Bareilly
== References ==
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[[Category:Locations]]
[[Category:Cities, towns and villages in Bengal Presidency]]
