Aldwark, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Aldwark, a township, a chapelry, and a pleasant village in Alne parish, N.R. Yorkshire, on the river Ouse, 3 miles SW of Alne station on the N.E.R., and 12 NW of York. Acreage, 2314 of land and 23 of water; population, 215. Lord Walsingham is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The church is a pretty building in the Perpendicular style, erected about 1846 by Lady Frankland Russell, who endowed it with £30 per annum. The living is annexed to that of Alne. Aldwark has a post office under Easingwold; money order and telegraph office, Great Ouseburn.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Aldwark from the following:

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

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 Aldwark 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