Fearby, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Fearby, a village and a township in Masham parish, for parochial purposes, and Healey parish for ecclesiastical purposes, N.R. Yorkshire, 2 miles W of Masham station on the N.EtB. There is a post office under Bedale; money order and telegraph office, Masham. Acreage, 892; population, 228. There is a Wesleyan 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 | Masham | |
| Poor Law union | Leyburn | |
| Riding | North | |
| Wapentake | Hang-East |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Fearby 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 Fearby are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- 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: