Ainderby Steeple, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Ainderby-Steeple, a township, a village, and a parish in the N.R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Swale, adjacent to Ainderby railway station, 3 miles W of Northallerton, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Northallerton. The parish includes also the townships of Warlaby, Morton-upon-Swale, and Thrintoft. Acreage, 1158; population of civil parish, 224; of ecclesiastical, 635. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon. The church is an excellent specimen of Early English, and has been very successfully restored.

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 Ainderby Steeple:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ainderby Steeple from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ainderby-Steeple (St. Helen))

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 Ainderby Steeple 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