Faceby, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Faceby, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in the N.R. Yorkshire, 2 miles SE of Potto station on the N.E.R., 2 S of Sexhow station on the N.E.R., and 4 SSW of Stokesley. Post town, Northallerton. Acreage, 1382; population, 110. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; gross value, £116 with residence. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Whorlton | |
Liberty | Langbaurgh | |
Poor Law union | Stokesley | |
Riding | North |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Faceby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1813-1913 | 1841-1928 | 1835-1983 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Faceby from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the North Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Faceby are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following North Riding newspapers online: