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.

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:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Faceby from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Faceby)

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.
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following North Riding newspapers online:

• York Herald
• Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough
• Yorkshire Gazette
• Yorkshire Evening Press
• Whitby Gazette