Alne, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Alne, a village, a township, and a parish in the N.R. Yorkshire. The township lies on an affluent of the Ouse, and on the N.E.R., 13 miles NW by N of York; it has a station on the railway, and a post office under Easingwold. Acreage, 2262; population of the civil parish, 439; of the ecclesiastical, with Aldwark, 1449. The parish includes also the townships of Youlton, Aldwark, Tollerton, Flawith, and Tholthorpe. A chief residence is Alne Hall, the seat of the Swainston-Strangways family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York, and includes the curacy of Aldwark; value, £400. The church is Norman, and has a carved oaken pulpit and a Norman font. 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.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Alne from the following:

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

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 Alne 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